lsv is a modern alternative to ls in the spirit of exa, eza, lsd, pls, natls, ls-go and others.
Border format with header option
- Single binary with no external dependencies!
- Not written in Rust 😮 (see below)
- Color output based on LS_COLORS
- Table format (long format)
- Column Headers (long format)
- Blocked output (long format)
- Icons
- Checksum (md5, sha1, sha224, sha256, sha512, blake2b)
- Friendly file sizes and dates
- Nearly as fast as GNU
ls - Robust recursion. Try
lsv -R / - Options similar to
ls - Usual other
lsfeatures
- Install the V compiler. It takes a minute or less
git clone https://github.com/mike-ward/lsv.gitcd lsvmakebin/lsv
I tried several times to submit to Homebrew but could never get past the CI. Please send a pull request to Homebrew if you know how. Thanks.
lsv 2024.4
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Usage: lsv [options] [FILES]
Description: List information about FILES
Options:
-a include files starting with .
-c color the listing
-D append / to directories
-i show file icon (requires nerd fonts)
-m list of files separated by commas
-q enclose files in quotes
-R list subdirectories recursively
--depth <int> limit depth of recursion
-X list files by lines instead of by columns
-1 list one file per line
--width <int> set output width to <int>
Filtering and Sorting Options:
-d list only directories
-f list only files
-g group directories before files
-r reverse the listing order
-s sort by file size, largest first
-t sort by time, newest first
-v sort digits within text as numbers
-w sort by width, shortest first
-x sort by file extension
-u no sorting
Long Listing Options:
-b blank line every 5 rows
-B add borders to long listing format
-k sizes in kibibytes (1024) (e.g. 1k 234m 2g)
-K sizes in Kilobytes (1000) (e.g. 1kb 234mb 2gb)
-l long listing format
-o show octal permissions
-p show relative path
-A show last accessed date
-C show last status changed date
-H show column headers
-I show time in iso format
-J show time in compact format
-N show inodes
-Z do not wrap long lines
--cs <string> show file checksum
(md5, sha1, sha224, sha256, sha512, blake2b)
--no-counts hide file/dir counts
--no-date hide date (modified)
--no-dim hide shading; useful for light backgrounds
--no-group hide group name
--no-hard-links hide hard links count
--no-owner hide owner name
--no-permissions hide permissions
--no-size hide file size
-h, --help display this help and exit
--version output version information and exit
The -c option emits color codes when standard output is
connected to a terminal. Colors are defined in the LS_COLORS
environment variable.
It started with writing a ls implemention for the V Language CoreUtils project.
Coreutils is a reimplementation of the POSIX and GNU utility programs written in the V Language. Everything was going fine until I started having too much fun and down the, "Rabbit Hole" I went.
What's this V language? You can read about it here, but the short version is it is a simple, fast, safe, compiled language for developing maintainable software. I mentioned lsv is not written in Rust. I'm not trashing Rust. Rust is obviously a robust and popular language. However, it's a steep climb to get up to speed and requires a fair bit of cognitive load to use it well.
V is the opposite. It has many of the same safty features of Rust, but without the cognitive over head. It's simple, straightfoward syntax makes it a breeze to write. Builds happen in milliseconds, not minutes and hours. You don't need any special build tools like Gradle.
Finally, take a look at the lsv code base. The entire code base is 2K lines 🧐. Furthermore, the implemention is straightforward. No threading, coroutines or fancy memory management. Even if you don't know V, I'm betting you will understand the code.
See CONTRIBUTING.md for more information