LSD (LSDeluxe)

Table of Contents

1. Description
2. Screenshot
3. Installation
   1. Archlinux
   2. Other
4. Benchmark
5. Todo

Description

This project is heavily inspired by the super colorls project but with some little differences. For example is written is rust and not ruby which make it really faster (see the benchmarks).

Screenshot

Installation

Archlinux

```

With yaourt

yaourt lsd-git

With yay

yay lsd-git ```

Other

1. Install rust
2. Install the patched fonts of powerline nerd-font and/or font-awesome. Have a look at the Nerd Font README for more installation instructions.
3. Install the lsd package with cargo install lsd

Benchmark

Result from hyperfine --warmup 10 'lsd -la /etc/*' 'colorls -la /etc/*' --export-markdown out.md:

| Command | Mean [ms] | Min…Max [ms] | |:---|---:|---:| | lsd -la /etc/* | 11.0 ± 0.5 | 9.9…13.0 | | colorls -la /etc/* | 503.3 ± 5.6 | 494.6…513.4 |

TODO

• [x] Handle the -l option (used by default for now)
• [x] Handle the -a option
• [x] Add icons before the files names
• [ ] Handle the tree (--tree) output option
• [ ] Handle the json (--json) output option
• [ ] Handle Named pipes
• [ ] Handle sockets
• [ ] Handle block devices
• [ ] Handle character devices