Take the 2-minute tour ×  My Ubuntu allows the use of l as a
command to print out the current directory much like ls except
that it is actually better in that it specifies which are
folders, files, and executables.  Is this an existing command or
did I configure my system (like la for ls -a and ll for ls -l)
and forget about it? (it's not in my .bashrc)  share|improve
this question I can't connect to my linux machine right now, but
I think type or which will tell you if it's an alias, and what
it's an alias for. –  Rob Feb 24 at 18:11 add comment  2 Answers
My .bashrc has the following alias, included by default in
Debian-based distributions (and probably others):  alias l='ls
-CF' share|improve this answer oh shoot you're right, it was in
my .bashrc and I missed it. Thanks! –  funk-shun Apr 19 '11 at
5:41 add comment  Typically these are shortcuts that are
implemented as aliases. Type alias at your prompt and you'll see
a list of all of your aliases. If you don't have it explicitly
defined in your .bashrc,