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NOTE: this project has moved tohttps://gitlab.com/js-d-coder/lsi-python3
ls command alternative (not a replacement). Output is either cleanly formatted table or string of null terminated file names parseable by xargs command. Default behaviour is to show only non-hidden files and directories of directory passed or current directory if no directory is given, in table format.
It attempts to solve some problems with traditional UNIX ls command:
- Output is in table format and not garbled like in traditional UNIX
lscommand. (See screen shot below) - File names issingle qouted to help distinguish files with spaces in their names. (See screen shot below)
- You can safely parse its output. (See explanation below)
Any improvement or feature addition request is most welcome. I will be adding more features myself in future.
Written in Python for UNIX like OS
Requires Python version 3.3 or later
Version 2
lsi [-h] [-1 | -x] [-n | -i | -a] [-d | -f] [-s | -u | -t | -c | -z] [-r] [-v] [FILE [FILE ...]]ls command alternative. Output is either cleanly formatted table or string ofnull terminated file names parseable by xargs command. Default behaviour is toshow only non-hidden files and directories of directory passed or currentdirectory if no directory is given, in table format.positional arguments: FILE space separated list of any numbers of files and/or directories; if not given, current directory will be assumedoptional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit -1 output on file per line -x, --xargs output will be string of null terminated file names; can be used as input to other commands like xargs; absense of this option makes output to be a table, which is default -n, --non-hidden show files and/or directories with names that does not start with a dot; this is default -i, --hidden show files and/or directories with names starting with a dot -a, --include-hidden show all files and/or directories -d, --only-dir show directories only and not regular file -f, --only-files show only regular files and not directories -f, --only-files show only regular files and not directories -s sort contents of given directories alphabetically in ascending order; this is default -u sort contents of given directories by access time, newest first -t sort contents of given directories by modification time, newest first -c sort contents of given directories by time of last modification of file status information, newest first -z sort contents of given directories by their size, largest first, note this works well only with regular files -r reverse order while sorting; can be used in conjuction with option -s, -u, -t or -c; in absense of these options, sort alphabetically in descending order -v, --version output version information and exit# show all non-hidden files and directories$ lsi'very-long-name3' 'very-long-name2' 'very-long-name1' 'long-name5''long-name4' 'long-name3' 'long-name2' 'long-name1''file15' 'file14' 'file13' 'file12''file11' 'file10' 'file9' 'file8''file7' 'file6' 'file5' 'file4''file3' 'file2' 'file1' 'directory5/''directory4/' 'directory3/' 'directory2/' 'directory1/''dir15/' 'dir14/' 'dir13/' 'dir12/''dir11/' 'dir10/' 'dir9/' 'dir8/''dir7/' 'dir6/' 'dir5/' 'dir4/''dir3/' 'dir2/' 'dir1/'# show all directories$ lsi -da'.hidden-dir5/' '.hidden-dir4/' '.hidden-dir3/' '.hidden-dir2/' '.hidden-dir1/''hidden-files/' 'directory5/' 'directory4/' 'directory3/' 'directory2/''directory1/' 'dir15/' 'dir14/' 'dir13/' 'dir12/''dir11/' 'dir10/' 'dir9/' 'dir8/' 'dir7/''dir6/' 'dir5/' 'dir4/' 'dir3/' 'dir2/''dir1/'You should not parse the output ofls command, butyou can safely parse the output oflsi
# move all hidden files to hidden-files directory$ lsi -ifx | xargs -r0 mv -t hidden-fileslsi requires Python version 3 installed before you run it
# apt install python3 # Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Debian# pacman -S python # Arch Linux# yum install python3 # Fedora# pkg install python3 # \*BSD(For Ubuntu, Fedora, Linux Mint, Debian, Arch Linux and other Linux distributions; *BSD and other UNIX like OS)
$ git clone https://github.com/js-d-coder/lsi-python3.git$ cd lsi-python3# cp lsi /usr/local/bin/# chmod +x /usr/local/bin/lsi
MIT
Copyright (c) 2018 js-d-coder (www.github.com/js-d-coder)
This project makes use of PEP8 code style. Linter used is pycodestyle.NOTE: Only exception is max-line-length which is set to 120.
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