A Ruby gem that beautifies the terminal's ls command, with color and font-awesome icons. 🎉

Color LS

A Ruby script that colorizes the ls output with color and icons. Here are the screenshots of working example on an iTerm2 terminal (Mac OS), oh-my-zsh with powerlevel9k theme and powerline nerd-font + awesome-config font with the Solarized Dark color theme.

Table of contents

• Usage
• Installation
• Recommended configurations
• Updating
• Uninstallation
• Contributing
• License

Usage

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• Just lc : Prints all directories, files and dotfiles in current directory.

  

• With paths : lc path(s) prints all directories, files and dotfiles in given directory / directories.

  

• With --report or -r flag : lc path(s) -r : Prints all directories, files and dotfiles in directories, along with a brief report about number of files and folders shown.

  

• With --sort-dirs / -sd or --sort-files / -sf : Entries are sorted directories-first or files-first, and then alphabetically (case-insensitively) before being printed.

  

• With --dirs / -d or --files / -f : Entries are filtered so that only directories or files are shown.

  

• With -1 : Entries are printed in a column (one per line), just like ls -1 does.

  

Installation

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1. Install Ruby (prefably, version > 2.1)

2. Install the patched fonts of powerline nerd-font and/or font-awesome. Have a look at nerdfont's README for more installation instructions.

   Note for iTerm2 users - Please enable the nerd-font at iTerm2 > Preferences > Profiles > Text > Non-Ascii font > Knack Regular Nerd Font Complete.

3. Install the colorls ruby gem with gem install colorls

   Note for rbenv users - In case of load error when using lc, please try the below patch.

   rbenv rehash
   rehash

4. Start using colorls 🎉

Recommended configurations

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1. To add some short command (say, lc) with some flag options (say, -r)b y default, add this to your shell configuration file (~/.bashrc, ~/.zshrc or ~/.fishrc) :

   alias lc='colorls -r'

2. For changing the icon(s) to other unicode icons of choice (select icons from here), change the YAML files in a text editor of your choice (say, subl)

   subl $(gem which colorls)/../yaml/

Updating

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Want to update to the latest version of colorls?

gem update colorls

Uninstallation

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Want to uninstall and revert back to the old style? No issues (sob). Please feel free to open an issue regarding how we can enhance colorls.

gem uninstall colorls

Contributing

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Your contributions are always welcome! Please have a look at the contribution guidelines first. 🎉

License

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The MIT License (MIT) 2017 - Athitya Kumar. Please have a look at the LICENSE.md for more details.