Last Updated on August 11, 2021
Summary
colorls is a useful utility that achieves its objective of beautifying the ls command, and at the same time offering more useful information.
colorls has attracted over 3K GitHub stars.
If the icons aren’t important to you, you may prefer exa. exa sports more features and arguably better defaults than ls. It uses colors to distinguish file types and metadata. The tool recognizes symlinks, extended attributes, and Git. It’s compact, fast, and a single binary.
Website: github.com/athityakumar/colorls
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Developer: Athitya Kumar and contributors
License: MIT License
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Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Introduction / Installation
Page 2 – In Operation
Page 3 – Summary