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colorls — Beautify `ls` command output, with color and font-awesome icons. Available as a Ruby gem. More infor

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Problem

How to use the colorls command: Beautify ls command output, with color and font-awesome icons. Available as a Ruby gem. More information: <https://github.com/athityakumar/colorls#flags>.

Solution

colorls — Beautify ls command output, with color and font-awesome icons. Available as a Ruby gem. More information: <https://github.com/athityakumar/colorls#flags>.

List files one per line:

colorls -1

List all files, including hidden files:

colorls {{[-a|--all]}}

Long format list (permissions, ownership, size, and modification date) of all files:

colorls {{[-l|--long]}} {{[-a|--all]}}

Only list directories:

colorls {{[-d|--dirs]}}

Code Snippets

List files one per line

colorls -1

List all files, including hidden files

colorls {{[-a|--all]}}

Long format list (permissions, ownership, size, and modification date) of all files

colorls {{[-l|--long]}} {{[-a|--all]}}

Only list directories

colorls {{[-d|--dirs]}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/colorls

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