mi-ndlovu / ft_ls-1

My own implementation of the famous Unix command: ls, using the C programming language

ft_ls - @42Born2Code

My own implementation of the famous Unix command: ls, using the C programming language.

Requirements

To be able to build and run this program you'll need a macbook, because I didn't make it portable for other systems. Sorry :(. As for software Requirements, you'll need:

• GNU make
• GCC

No specific versions, just update them to the latest version if you still can't build the program.

Building the program

1. Download/Clone the source code
2. cd into the root directory
3. Run make

Running the program

It's pretty simple, instead of calling ls, call ./ft_ls from the root directory of the source code after building it.

Supported flags

• Long listing display: -l
• Display recursively: -R
• Display all files: -a
• Reverse sort: -r
• Sort by modification date: -t
• Display user ID and group ID: -n
• Suppress owner: -g
• Display one entry per line: -1
• Column display: -C (Set by default)
• Sort by creation date: -U
• Sort by last access date: -a
• Sort by last status change date: -c
• Show every entry except for current and previous directories: -A
• Sort by file size: -S
• Colorized output: -G (Only works in long listing display)

Notes

• You can find the project instructions by clicking here
• The master branch has the original code, the norme branch has the normed version of it.
• No need to mention the odd spacing in files, I'm using a tab size of 4.
• It's not fast and there are a lot of memory leaks, I'll come back and fix those later.
• I know comments would have been super useful, this is kind of a big code base, but I'm trying to go fast in my school program, I'll make sure to add them later.
• There are probably better ways to implement it, but we are limited by a set of functions at my school (just to make it harder and give us a deeper understanding of what's happening in the back), please, review the project instructions before you explain how X or Y would have been a better way to do it ;)

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