Quickly add dir to OSX

A quick and dirty method of adding dir to a Mac is as simple as creating a link to /bin/ls

ls is located in /bin

By default we can't add or modify things there (topic for another time), but we can modify things in /usr/local/bin so where better a place to add a dir file/command...

goto /usr/local/bin
and do sudo ln -s /bin/ls dir

dir now exists in /usr/local/bin as a symbolic link to /bin/ls



If we now do ls /usr/local/bin -al we will see the below;

basic stuff...

An alternative could be to add an alias to .bash_profile in /users/username/.bash_profile like so;

alias dir='ls'

when this is done, remember to quit terminal or run source ~/.bash_profile