Ubuntu – automatically run ls after changing path using autocd

I searched for this auto-disper thing on google and found something by that name at https://github.com/wertarbyte/auto-disper and looked at the source. It appears to be running X11 based commands, but your pm-script is likely not being run with an X11 environment. There's no clean way to do this, but if you make the assumption that your X session will be running on display 0 (which will typically be the case if you are the only one logged in graphically), you might get it working by running the command as your user and setting the DISPLAY environment variable.

#!/bin/bash

case "$1" in
    thaw | resume )
        sudo -u yourusername env DISPLAY=:0 auto-disper --change &> /home/myHome/autodisper_on_wake.txt
    ;;
esac

Find-based solution:

find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -printf '%f\n'

Bash-based solution:

for f in *; do [[ -d "$f" ]] || echo "$f"; done
##  or, if you want coloured output:
for f in *; do [[ -d "$f" ]] || ls -- "$f"; done

The bash-based solution will get you everything that isn't a directory; it will include things like named pipes (you probably want this). If you specifically want just files, either use the find command or one of these:

for f in *; do [[ -f "$f" ]] && echo "$f"; done
##  or, if you want coloured output:
for f in *; do [[ -f "$f" ]] && ls -- "$f"; done

If you're going to be using this regularly, you can of course put this into an alias somewhere in your ~/.bashrc:

alias lsfiles='for f in *; do [[ -f "$f" ]] && ls -- "$f"; done'

Since you noted in the comments that you're actually on OSX rather than Ubuntu, I would suggest that next time you direct questions to the Apple or more general Unix & Linux Stack Exchange sites.