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1 | 1 | # lsi (a command-line utility) |
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3 | | -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. |
| 3 | +`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. |
| 4 | +It attempts to solve some problems with traditional UNIX ls command: |
| 5 | + |
| 6 | +* Output is in table format and not garbled like in traditional UNIX `ls` command. (See screen shot below) |
| 7 | +* File names is _single qouted_ to help distinguish files with spaces in their names. (See screen shot below) |
| 8 | +* You can safely parse its output. (See explanation below) |
| 9 | + |
| 10 | +Any improvement or feature addition request is most welcome. I will be adding more features myself in future. |
| 11 | + |
4 | 12 | Written in Python for UNIX like OS |
5 | 13 | Requires Python version 3.3 or later |
6 | 14 | Version 2 |
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79 | 87 | 'dir6/' 'dir5/' 'dir4/' 'dir3/' 'dir2/' |
80 | 88 | 'dir1/' |
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82 | | -[You should not parse the output of `ls` command,](http://www.mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs) but **you can safely parse the output of `lsi`** |
| 90 | +[You should not parse the output of `ls` command,](https://mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs) but **you can safely parse the output of `lsi`** |
83 | 91 |
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84 | 92 | # move all hidden files to hidden-files directory |
85 | 93 | $ lsi -ifx | xargs -r0 mv -t hidden-files |
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