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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

--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]

--color <color>... : When to use terminal colours [default: auto] [possible values: always, auto, never]

--date <date>... : How to display date [possible values: date, 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] [possible values: rwx, octal]

--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]

-U, --no-sort : Do not sort. List entries in directory order

-Z --context : Display SELinux or SMACK security context

--header : Display block headers

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.