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The best alias for ls is ls –halF It is easy to remember, and produces easy to read output with human readable file sizes and / marks present by the directory names..

A really good version of the ll alias is: ls –lahF, although on some versions ls –lahp looks better than F.

This is the code for a function in Bash script. #!/bin/bash # Define a function greet() { echo “Hello, $1″ } # Call the function with “World” as the argument greet “World”

To loop through the subdirectories in a folder, when those subdirectories may contain spaces in the file names, use the following procedure. OLD_IFS=$IFS && IFS=$’\n’ for directory in $HOME/somefolder/*/; do echo “some code here” done IFS=$OLD_IFS