lsr basically ls but with colorization and sorting for better readability. It offers filtering options, making it easy to locate specific files and folders (with grep you'll find exactly what you need) It can even display the directory contents in a tree-like structure! 🔥

Homebrew (MacOS and Linux)

brew tap jmattaa/laser
brew install --formula laser

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/jmattaa/laser.git
cd laser

Install system-wide:

sudo make install

To uninstall you can run

sudo make uninstall

After installing you can run laser in your current directory by simply running:

lsr
# or for a specific directory run:
lsr some-directory

If you want to change the colors of the output you can set an environment variable called LSR_COLORS for example if you want to add nerd font icons to the existing colors you can use:

export LSR_COLORS="DIR=\x1b[34m :\
SYMLINK=\x1b[36m :\
FILE=\x1b[0m :\
HIDDEN=\x1b[90m :\
EXEC=\x1b[32;4m :\
ARCHIVE=\x1b[31m :\
MEDIA=\x1b[33m :\
DOCUMENT=\x1b[35;3m :"

You don't have to change all of these if there is only one you want to change you can do that, to leave the rest on default

The command-line options can be added by passing flags. These flags can be put before or after the directory you want to search, if there is no directory you can directly pass in the flags.

• -a or --all shows hidden files
• -D or --Directories shows only directories
• -F or --Files shows only files
• -S or --Symlinks shows only symlinks
• -G or --Git shows only the entries that are not named in .gitignore (works only if there exists a .gitignore)
• -r or --recursive shows directory tree structure
  • -r or --recursive has an optional value for max depth and it can be used by using -r2 or --recursive=2 by default the depth is until last level
• -l or --long displays in long format (permissions, last modified, size and owner)

The flags can be chained for example using:

lsr -Dar # this will show all directories including hidden ones recursivly
lsr -GDS # this will only show directories (not hidden) and symlinks that are not mentioned in .gitignore

Feel free to contribute to this project to make it better 🚀 check the CONTRIBUTING.md and follow the guidlines from there!

• @jmattaa