Morning all

working with a Mac Book Air, got annoyed and did the following (note I am not logged in as root) side note: l <-- That's and L

Open a terminal if you have not done so already (finder:Spy glass thingy up top on the right, then type terminal)

cd $home (Change to my home directory)
vim .profile (Edit/created a file called .profile)
alias ll='ls -lG' (added this line to the top of the file and saved)
The following key combo will save the file.
Esc, hold left shift key press colon, release the shift key and press w, q, Enter

Log out of your terminal session (This may not be absolutely needed but we are
looking for a universal answer so lets do it anyway). Use the command exit twice and close the window is needed.

Note click the finder and type terminal (little spy glass thingy in the upper Right, (no, your other right)

In the terminal type ll (Ooo pretty colors >=-)should be good to go)

Sixhammers

Add alias ll='ls -lG' to your ~/.profile with your favorite $EDITOR.

With this method, remember that you'll have to start a new terminal session (or source ~/.profile to be able to use ll).

Morning all

working with a Mac Book Air, got annoyed and did the following (note I am not logged in as root)

cd $home (Change to my home directory)
vim .profile (Edit/created a file called .profile)
alias ll='ls -lG' (added this line to the top of the file and saved)
The following key combo will save the file.
Esc, hold left shift key press colon, release the shift key and press w, q, Enter

Log out of your terminal session (This may not be absolutely needed but we are
looking for a universal answer so lets do it anyway). Use the command exit twice and close the window is needed.

Note click the finder and type terminal (little spy glass thingy in the upper left)

Inter the terminal type ll (Ooo pretty colors >=-)should be good to go)

Sixhammers

Morning all

working with a Mac Book Air, got annoyed and did the following (note I am not logged in as root) side note: l <-- That's and L

Open a terminal if you have not done so already (finder:Spy glass thingy up top on the right, then type terminal)

cd $home (Change to my home directory)
vim .profile (Edit/created a file called .profile)
alias ll='ls -lG' (added this line to the top of the file and saved)
The following key combo will save the file.
Esc, hold left shift key press colon, release the shift key and press w, q, Enter

Log out of your terminal session (This may not be absolutely needed but we are
looking for a universal answer so lets do it anyway). Use the command exit twice and close the window is needed.

Note click the finder and type terminal (little spy glass thingy in the upper Right, (no, your other right)

In the terminal type ll (Ooo pretty colors >=-)should be good to go)

Sixhammers