Dired Show File Information

Alternative to dired-show-file-type(y) to display more detailed file information.

Usage

(autoload #'dired-file-info "dired-file-info" "" t)
(with-eval-after-load "dired"
  (define-key dired-mode-map "y" #'dired-file-info))

Customize

Variable	Default Value
dired-file-info-message-language	nil(Auto)
dired-file-info-timestamp-format	“%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S”
dired-file-info-details-local-file-command	exiftool or stat
dired-file-info-details-remote-file-command	stat
dired-file-info-details-local-dir-command	stat
dired-file-info-details-remote-dir-command	stat
dired-file-info-overview-items	-

Example

The following is the result of displaying directory information. The total file size and number of files are displayed.

emacs-28.2: directory
Size: 317.5MB (332967595bytes)
Files: 4365
Directories: 127
Accessed: 2022-11-10 22:26:19
Modified: 2022-09-23 12:43:15
Status Changed: 2022-09-23 12:43:05
(y:More details)

The following is the result of displaying the information of a jpg image.

PXL_20221003_060116236.jpg: JPEG image data, Exif standard: [TIFF image data, little-endian, direntries=13, height=3024, manufacturer=Google, model=Pixel 3, orientation=upper-left, xresolution=185, yresolution=193, resolutionunit=2, software=HDR+ 1.0.440402506zd, datetime=2022:10:03 15:01:16, GPS-Data, width=4032], baseline, precision 8, 4032x3024, components 3
Size: 2.2MB (2328789bytes)
Accessed: 2022-11-10 22:29:32
Modified: 2022-10-03 15:01:20
Status Changed: 2022-10-19 10:03:34
(y:More details)

Press y again to get more detailed information in exiftool. ExifTool can get information of a lot of files, not just images.