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I'm using Mac OS X. When I SSH into servers I find the ll command useful, but it's not available on my local machine. How can I install it?

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Same way it's done on the other system.

alias ll='ls -l --color=auto'

Stick that in ~/.bashrc.

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It worked!, anyway --color=auto parameter made an error. Other parts worked well. – Eonil Jan 6 '12 at 7:10
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Ah right, BSD ls doesn't support --color. – Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams Jan 6 '12 at 7:12
One more, I had to add the command ~/.profile instead of ~/.bashrc to make it work. Maybe this is Mac OS X specific. – Eonil Jan 6 '12 at 12:12
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You need alias ll='ls -lG' for the same effect in macosx. – Burhan Khalid Jan 6 '12 at 13:01
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I needed to add alias ll='ls -lG' to my ~/.bash_profile to make it work (in Lion, if that matters) – jessica Jul 28 '12 at 1:58
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Run type ll to see where the ll command is coming from. ll is not a standard command, but many distributions predefine it to an alias for ls with some preset options. The output of type ll gives you the definition of the alias, or you can look for it in your shell configuration file (~/.bashrc if your shell is bash). Copy the definition to ~/.bashrc on the other machine.

Bash handles its configuration file in a slightly odd way: it loads ~/.bashrc in all interactive shells except the ones that are also login shells. Bash only loads ~/.bash_profile (if it exists, otherwise ~/.profile) in a login shell. To make sure that your .bashrc is read when it should be, put this line in your ~/.bash_profile:

case $- in *i*) . ~/.bashrc;; esac
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