ls-rs

A blazing-fast and colorful ls alternative written in Rust 🦀

Easily list directory contents with intuitive color coding, smart formatting, and robust error handling.

✨ Features

• Color-coded output based on file type:
  • 🔵 Blue: Directories
  • 🔗 Cyan: Symlinks
  • 🟢 Green: Executable files
  • 🟡 Yellow: Image files (jpg, png, gif, etc.)
  • ⚪ White: Regular files
• Smart column layout that adapts to your terminal width
• Hidden file support with -a/--all flag
• Robust error handling with helpful error messages
• Fast performance thanks to Rust's zero-cost abstractions
• Cross-platform compatibility
• Intuitive sorting: non-hidden files first, case-insensitive alphabetical order

🚀 Installation

From crates.io

cargo install ls-rs

From source

git clone https://github.com/KushalMeghani1644/ls-rs
cd ls-rs
cargo build --release

📖 Usage

# List current directory
ls-rs

# List specific directory
ls-rs /path/to/directory

# Show hidden files
ls-rs -a
ls-rs --all

# Show help
ls-rs -h
ls-rs --help

🎨 Color Scheme

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

📄 License

This project is licensed under the GPLv3 License - see the LICENSE file for details.