This is a fork of the work found at:
- els-1.54a1.tar.gz from http://els-software.org
I have modified it for my own person use.
No claims are made to the reliability or safety of those changes.
Extended LS is a very extended version of 'ls' by the original author. I have only made a few minor tweaks, such as adding color and glyph support.
README-ORIG is the original README from els-software.org. All of the other text files and documentation are unmodified from the original source.
This has compiled on OS X, Big Sur, not tested on other platforms.
- make config
- make all
binaries will be in: Build/els/bin
- add commas to file sizes
- colorize file size column
- colorize date/time by age
- add glyphs to show file types
These are zsh functions I use to call it.
Note: You will need to remove the "| mc" or also install it. mc turns "line" output into multi-columns
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l () { els +T^NY-M-DT +G~Atp~ugsmNL $@ }
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ll () { els +T^NY-M-DT +G~At~smN $@ | mc }
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ls () { els +G~t~N $@ | mc }
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lt () { els +T^NY-M-DT +G~At~smN -rt $@ | mc }
els uses the environment variable $LS_ICONS to define the colors and glyphs for file types.
The file ls_colors_generator.py is used to define those file types.
This is based on: https://github.com/mnurzia/even-better-ls where 'based on' == 'copied from'
Despite ls_colors_generator.py being a python program, the contents is only read by ls_icons_generator, never executed.
ls_icons_generator ingests both original ls $LS_COLORS and ls_colors_generator.py to create LS_ICONS.cfg
load_lsicons() loads $LS_ICONS from LS_ICONS.cfg. If ls_colors_generator.py is newer than LS_ICONS.cfg, it will regenerate LS_ICONS.cfg first.
These tools were written for my personal use. My *rc and init scripts are kept in $HOME/.rc
load_lsicons() reads and writes into $HOME/.rc/etc
Creates several functions with els options I find useful
Newest addition is a hide/unhide command to tell els to exclude files with specified extensions as demonstrated:
