LSD (LSDeluxe)
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Description
This project is heavily inspired by the super colorls project but with some little differences. For example it is written in rust and not in ruby which makes it much faster (see the benchmarks).
Screenshot
Installation
Prerequisites
Install the patched fonts of powerline nerd-font and/or font-awesome. Have a look at the Nerd Font README for more installation instructions. Don't forget to setup your terminal in order to use the correct font.
Archlinux
On Ubuntu
... and other Debian-based Linux distributions
Download the latest .deb package from the release page and install it via:
On Gentoo
Package available on package.gentoo.org (maintainned by Georgy Yakovlev)
From Snap
From Sources
With Rust's package manager cargo, you can install lsd via:
From Binaries
The release page includes precompiled binaries for Linux and macOS.
Configurations
Required
In order to use lsd instead of the default ls you need to add this to you shell configuration file (~/.bashrc, ~/.zshrc, etc.) :
Optional
Some examples of useful aliases. You can add this to you shell configuration file (~/.bashrc, ~/.zshrc, etc.) just under the alias above :
Benchmark
Result from hyperfine --warmup 10 'lsd -la /etc/*' 'colorls -la /etc/*' 'exa -la /etc/*' --export-markdown out.md
:
Command | Mean [ms] | Min…Max [ms] |
---|---|---|
lsd -la /etc/* |
9.8 ± 0.7 | 8.6…11.9 |
colorls -la /etc/* |
387.3 ± 4.1 | 379.8…393.6 |
exa -la /etc/* |
15.4 ± 1.8 | 14.0…24.0 |
F.A.Q.
Default Colors
In the future the possibility to customize the colors might be implemented. For now, the default colors are:
User/Group | Permissions | File Types | Last time Modified | File Size |
---|---|---|---|---|
User | Read | Directory | within the last hour | Small File |
Group | Write | Executable File | within the last day | Medium File |
Execute | Non-Executable File | older | Large File | |
Execute with Stickybit | Broken Symlink | Non File | ||
No Access | Pipe/Symlink/Blockdevice/Socket/Special | |||
CharDevice |
Contributors
Everyone can contribute to this project, improving the code or adding functions. If anyone wants something to be added we will try to do it.
As this is being updated regularly, don't forget to rebase your fork before creating a pull-request.
Credits
Special thanks to sharkdp and his superb fd from which I have stolen a lot of stuff.