>On Mon, 19 May 2003 8:42AM -0700, Jesse Brown wrote: >> >>I'm sorry Sam, thanks for the clarification. I've worked on numerous Unix >>systems and have never seen any documentation where "ls -l" ( list contents >>in long format) referred to as ll. >> >>In BSD (OS X) "ll" does not work from the command line, so I'm at a loss as >>to why it was used to illustrate this example. > >If I remember correctly, both "l" and "ll" worked the same as "ls >-l" on 10.1, but not in 10.2 It's not really something you want to rely on. e.g. with 10.2.6 and the latest developer tools I get the following: prussell% which ll ll: aliased to ls -lag !* | more YMMV and all that. Paul --