"ls" with icon implementation of this? (SEE: https://github.com/ryanoasis/bash-devicons)

[dimitrieh]

sorry if this is not the place to ask!

I was wondering if there is an implementation of this for the "ls" command. So I get an overview of my files and directories within my shell, but with the icons! ;)

[ryanoasis]

Not a problem.

Hey this is a really good idea. I thought I might have seen some similar implementations but can't remember where I spotted them (if at all).

If I get some time maybe I will throw something together (or of course feel free) 😄

[dimitrieh]

Would be awesome! Wil see ;) not really my kind of thing to produce though, would be awesome to use!

[rosshadden]

Yeah I can see this being more general than just vim. To the point where maybe you even eventually flip the title: devicons-vim. And have devicons-unix, devicons-sublime, etc. But then again, who has time for that? 😉

[ryanoasis]

eventually flip the title: devicons-vim

Not totally opposed to that. I have already changed the repo and name once (was vim-webdevicons)

The name was partly based on http://vorillaz.github.io/devicons but I have added glyphs from other icon sets as well as some custom ones (Nerd Fonts)

[ryanoasis]

Hey this is pretty basic and fragile but I started on something: https://github.com/ryanoasis/bash-devicons

[rosshadden]

Just my two cents: I don't think you should call it bash-devicons. ls is a unix binary, which really doesn't have anything to do with bash. Many people don't even use bash; for example I use zsh. And since you're prefixing the binaries with devicons-, it might make sense to be consistent with the name, calling it devicons-<name>, like devicons-unix or whatever you decide.

</rant>! 😄

[ryanoasis]

@rosshadden Thanks for the feedback.

Heh, I plead ignorance on that so thanks for the info.

I was thinking of actually splitting the 'ls' script into a separate repo (devicons-ls or something) and have the 'bash' portion basically just the function in bash that determines the filetype extension so it could be included with other scripts in the future.. or something 😊

[ryanoasis]

Going to close this out, considering this: https://github.com/ryanoasis/bash-devicons