In article <5318 at dasys1.UUCP> pepper at dasys1.UUCP (Angeli "Ms. Pepper" Wahlstedt) writes: > alias down 'cd \!^; ls' >But, here's the fun part...how do I do the same thing in ksh?? Since ksh is advertised as being compatible with the Bourne shell, I would simply define a shell function: down(){ cd $1; ls; }