dborzov / Lsp

lsp: list files in a mildly human-frendlier manner

lsp lists files, like ls command, but it does not attempt to meet that archaic POSIX specification, so instead of this:

(bash)$ ls -l

total 16
-rw-r--r--  1 peterborzov  staff  1079  9 Aug 00:22 LICENSE
-rw-r--r--  1 peterborzov  staff    60  9 Aug 00:22 README.md

you get this:

Features

File Groups

Files grouped by type (with -l key or in modes when file type not shown). lsp distinguishes binary, text and executable files, symlinks and is aware of weird types like devices and unix socket thingy:

Modification time in human-friendly format

-t key for when you are interested in modification time. It turns to the mode that makes most sense to me when I want to look up modtimes, sorted within file groups from recent to latest: Sometimes relative times are not very readible as well (like when you are interested in a specific date), use two flags -sl to show the full UTC timestamp in properties.

Size in human-friendly format

-s key, similarly to modtime key, shows file sizes and sorts within file groups from largest to smallest:

Async Timeout

The file information is collected asynchronously, BFS-like, with a separate thread for each file and a timeout threshold.

That means that the execution is not going to freeze because of some low-response device driver (like external hard drive or optical drive) or collecting info about a huge directory.

Align by left

I have been playing with aligning files and descriptions by center, and I like that you can see files with the same extension right away, but there are deifinitely cases when it gets weird. For now, there is -p key to render the file table in the left-aligned columns:

Todo before v1.0

• [ ] Rewrite outline formatting: with the current design too much space is wasted, long filenames break things
• [x] Mark executable files as such
• Think about how to represent file rights and ownership
• Approach hidden and generated files as outlined in issue#3
• Better test coverage
• Expand in this README on philosophy of the project (tool in the unix way, minimize surprises, nothing's to be configurable)
• Think of TODO list points

Github Issues and pull requests are very welcome, feel free to message me if you are considering contributing. See CONTRIBUTING.md for intro to the codebase

Installation

lsp is written in the go programming language. It can be installed using go get.

 $ go get github.com/dborzov/lsp

Then make sure that your $PATH includes the $GOPATH/bin directory. To do that, you can put this line your ~/.bash_profile or .zshrc:

export PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin

Once it becomes more functional, lsp will be distributed in native binaries (without dependencies) for all platforms (Linux, MacOS, Windows).

Misc

MIT license.