lsd(1)

NAME

lsd - LSDeluxe

SYNOPSIS

lsd [FLAGS] [OPTIONS] [--] [FILE]...

DESCRIPTION

lsd is a ls command with a lot of pretty colours and some other stuff to enrich and enhance the directory listing experience.

OPTIONS

-a, --all

Do not ignore entries starting with .

-A, --almost-all

Do not list implied . and ..

--classic

Enable classic mode (no colours or icons)

-L, --dereference

When showing file information for a symbolic link, show information for the file the link references rather than for the link itself

-d, --directory-only

Display directories themselves, and not their contents (recursively when used with –tree)

-X, --extensionsort

Sort by file extension

--git

Display git status. Directory git status is a reduction of included file statuses (recursively).

--help

Prints help information

-h, --human-readable

For ls compatibility purposes ONLY, currently set by default

--ignore-config

Ignore the configuration file

--config-file <path>

Provide the config file from a custom location

-F, --classify

Append indicator (one of */=>@|) at the end of the file names

-i, --inode

Display the index number of each file

-l, --long

Display extended file metadata as a table

--no-symlink

Do not display symlink target

-1, --oneline

Display one entry per line

-R, --recursive

Recurse into directories

-r, --reverse

Reverse the order of the sort

-S, --sizesort

Sort by size

-t, --timesort

Sort by time modified

--total-size

Display the total size of directories

--tree

Recurse into directories and present the result as a tree

-V, --version

Prints version information

-v, --versionsort

Natural sort of (version) numbers within text

--blocks <blocks>...

Specify the blocks that will be displayed and in what order [possible values: permission, user, group, size, date, name, inode, git]

--color <color>...

When to use terminal colours [default: auto] [possible values: always, auto, never]

--date <date>...

How to display date [possible values: date, locale, relative, +date-time-format] [default: date]

--depth <num>...

Stop recursing into directories after reaching specified depth

--group-dirs <group-dirs>...

Sort the directories then the files [default: none] [possible values: none, first, last]

--group-directories-first

Groups the directories at the top before the files. Same as --group-dirs=first

--hyperlink <hyperlink>...

Attach hyperlink to filenames [default: never] [possible values: always, auto, never]

--icon <icon>...

When to print the icons [default: auto] [possible values: always, auto, never]

--icon-theme <icon-theme>...

Whether to use fancy or unicode icons [default: fancy] [possible values: fancy, unicode]

-I, --ignore-glob <pattern>...

Do not display files/directories with names matching the glob pattern(s). More than one can be specified by repeating the argument [default: ]

--permission <permission>...

How to display permissions [default: rwx for linux, attributes for windows] [possible values: rwx, octal, attributes, disable]

--size <size>...

How to display size [default: default] [possible values: default, short, bytes]

--sort <WORD>...

Sort by WORD instead of name [possible values: size, time, version, extension, git]

-U, --no-sort

Do not sort. List entries in directory order

-Z --context

Display SELinux or SMACK security context

--header

Display block headers

-N --literal

Print entry names without quoting

--truncate-owner-after

Truncate the user and group names if they exceed a certain number of characters

--truncate-owner-marker

Truncation marker appended to a truncated user or group name

ARGS

<FILE>...

A file or directory to list [default: .]

EXAMPLES

lsd

Display listing for current directory

lsd /etc

Display listing of /etc

lsd -la

Display listing of current directory, including files starting with . and the current directory’s entry.

ENVIRONMENT

LS_COLORS

Used to determine color for displaying filenames. See dir_colors.

XDG_CONFIG_HOME

Used to locate optional config file. If XDG_CONFIG_HOME is set, use $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/lsd/config.yaml else $HOME/.config/lsd/config.yaml.

SHELL_COMPLETIONS_DIR or OUT_DIR

Used to specify the directory for generating a shell completions file. If neither are set, no completions file will be generated. The directory will be created if it does not exist.