nice ls

Makes ls look nice, importantly (and ideally), without changing the ls command.

Firstly install using npm install --global nice-ls, then to enable, pipe the result of ls -l through nice-ls, or add an alias:

function ls() {
  command ls -l "$@" | nice-ls
}

Features

• Icons for known file and folder types
• Recently modified shown as brighter timestamps
• Readable file sizes by default
• Colour coded read/write/execute flags
• User permission are brighter than group and other
• Folder block size ignored
• Blocks hidden (never sure what they mean!)

Screenshot

Prerequisites

• nerd fonts - this is used for the icons
• iTerm: Prefs -> Profiles -> Text -> Non-ASCII Font (select nerdfont)