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Old 04-29-2016
How to add charactère before all line return by prompt?
For example, if i do ls

I want to have a string like "<br> file1 ....... <br>file2 ..... <br>file3 ....."

i think i ve to use xargs, but i can't find the solution.

Thanks
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Old 04-29-2016
maybe an alias?:
Code:
alias ls='ls -1 | sed 's/^/.../''

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Old 04-29-2016
Perfect, thanks
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Old 04-29-2016
Quote:
Originally Posted by rdrtx1
maybe an alias?:
Code:
alias ls='ls -1 | sed 's/^/.../''

It works, thanks
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