Re: OT: passing values to ls -- more questions!

2004-01-04 Thread Matt Price
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 04:56:18PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 11:41:48AM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > > I can collapse these two steps now with: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ll $(which emacs) > > > > ... but is there a way to trace the whole chain of symbolic links all t

Re: OT: passing values to ls -- more questions!

2004-01-04 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 11:41:48AM -0500, Matt Price wrote: > I can collapse these two steps now with: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ll $(which emacs) > > ... but is there a way to trace the whole chain of symbolic links all the way > to > -rwxr-xr-x1 root root 4254776 2002-04-09 18:46

Re: OT: passing values to ls -- more questions!

2004-01-04 Thread Matt Price
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 07:46:28AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > ls -ld $(locate charter | grep -i font) this is great, thanks! I do like this syntax a bit better, I think. While we're on the subject of ls, here's another problem... I often want to find out which version of a program I'm usin