ls is arguably one of the most important Unix commands, listing information about files and directories.

The Problem

I use cmd on Windows, and personally do not like the dir command. I often work on Linux servers, making me constantly switch between the two commands which is not preferable.

The Idea

Why not create a cross-platform, better ls command, one specifically designed for programmers with helpful built-in features? So, I did!

The Plan

Build an awesome replacement for the ls command with a bunch of helpful tools for developers.

Here where some of my ideas:

• Show git information without having to run it
• Clean up old projects to save space
• See useful information without having to open any files

The Solutuion - Introducing, lsfp! 🥳

Cross-platform alternative to ls, specifically designed for programmers.

Created with 💖 by developers, for developers

Open source (MIT license), with contributions welcome and very appreciated 🤗

Features

• ✅ License detection 🔎
• ✅ Colored output based on file extension 🎨
• ✅ Collapsed build directories so they don't take up unwanted vertical space ☄
• Git integration 🤯
  • ✅ File modified indication
  • File added indication
  • File moved indication
  • Directory indicator for contents
  • Use the .gitignore file like a smart person
• Project cleanup 🧼
  • Automatically detect project type (Node, Rust, etc.) and delete build intermediate and build directories.
  • Parse .gitignore for best results
    • But keep some files like .env
• ✅ No external dependencies ✨ (this was a mistake)

Development

We currently have two active developers. We'd love to have you contribute!

You can see the currently open issues on GitHub if you'd like a place to start.

lsfp is still in beta, it is not feature complete. We are working hard to get it to a point where we are happy to release v1.0

Huge thanks to Unknown for his help with this project ❤