Automatically ls when changing directories in zsh
The first thing I do when changing directories in the terminal is ls
to get my bearings. I usually do it without thinking.
I used to do this manually, but then I learned that zsh has a way to do this for me. Zsh offers "hook functions", which can be defined and are executed when certain events happen. One of these functions, chpwd
, will be "executed whenever the current working directory is changed."
Add something like this to your .zshrc
:
chpwd() {
ls
}
Now you'll ls
whenever you cd
(or pushd
)!
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