ryanobeirne / lsd

The next gen ls command

LSD (LSDeluxe)

Table of Contents

• Description
• Screenshot
• Installation
• Configurations
  • Required
  • Optional
• Benchmark
• F.A.Q.
• Contributors
• Credits

Description

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

Screenshot

Installation

Prerequisites

Install the patched fonts of powerline nerd-font and/or font-awesome. Have a look at the Nerd Font README for more installation instructions. Don't forget to setup your terminal in order to use the correct font.

Archlinux

pacman -S lsd

On Ubuntu

... and other Debian-based Linux distributions

Download the latest .deb package from the release page and install it via:

sudo dpkg -i lsd_7.2.0_amd64.deb  # adapt version number and architecture

On Gentoo

Package available on package.gentoo.org (maintainned by Georgy Yakovlev)

From Snap

sudo snap install lsd --classic

From Sources

With Rust's package manager cargo, you can install lsd via:

cargo install lsd

From Binaries

The release page includes precompiled binaries for Linux and macOS.

Configurations

Required

In order to use lsd instead of the default ls you need to add this to you shell configuration file (~/.bashrc, ~/.zshrc, etc.) :

alias ls='lsd'

Optional

Some examples of useful aliases. You can add this to you shell configuration file (~/.bashrc, ~/.zshrc, etc.) just under the alias above :

alias l='ls -l'
alias la='ls -a'
alias lla='ls -la'
alias lt='ls --tree'

Benchmark

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

Command	Mean [ms]	Min…Max [ms]
lsd -la /etc/*	9.8 ± 0.7	8.6…11.9
colorls -la /etc/*	387.3 ± 4.1	379.8…393.6
exa -la /etc/*	15.4 ± 1.8	14.0…24.0

F.A.Q.

Default Colors

In the future the possibility to customize the colors might be implemented. For now, the default colors are:

User/Group	Permissions	File Types	Last time Modified	File Size
User	Read	Directory	within the last hour	Small File
Group	Write	Executable File	within the last day	Medium File
	Execute	Non-Executable File	older	Large File
	Execute with Stickybit	Broken Symlink		Non File
	No Access	Pipe/Symlink/Blockdevice/Socket/Special
		CharDevice

Contributors

Everyone can contribute to this project, improving the code or adding functions. If anyone wants something to be added we will try to do it.

As this is being updated regularly, don't forget to rebase your fork before creating a pull-request.

Credits

Special thanks to sharkdp and his superb fd from which I have stolen a lot of stuff.