NOTE: this project has moved to https://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 is single 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 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.
positional arguments:
FILE space separated list of any numbers of files and/or
directories; if not given, current directory will be
assumed
optional 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 of ls command, but you can safely parse the output of lsi
# move all hidden files to hidden-files directory
$ lsi -ifx | xargs -r0 mv -t hidden-files
lsi 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.