Remapping Ctrl-l in bash

Question

Can one remap Ctrl-l in bash to execute more than just clear?

I know normally it just clears the screen. I'm looking to change that to clear the screen and list my pwd like so:

Ctrl-l:clear;ls;

Answer 1

The bind command defines new key bindings. With the -x parameter, you can assign a shell snippet to a key. The quoting is a bit strange: the key must be quoted for the readline key parser, and the binding description must be quoted because it contains several shell special characters.

bind -x '"\C-l": clear; ls'