Enhancing the Linux ls Command with lsd

Everyone is using it but using it well can make it quite beautiful At this point, you can use lsd which offers advanced features including:

• Themes (colors / icons)

• Tree view

• File classification display

• Git status display

• Enhanced left-right alignment formatting

• Hide/Show specific types

• Persistent configuration (config file)

• Nerd Font icon optimization

lsd -lah

cat ~/.config/lsd/config.yaml

classic: false
blocks:  - permission  - user  - group  - size  - date  - name
color:  when: auto  theme: default
date: relative
icons:  when: auto  theme: fancy
sorting:  column: name  reverse: false  dir-grouping: first

➜ ~ lsd –version

lsd 1.1.5

Alternatively, you can directly create an alias for ls.

➜  ~ cat .zshrc|tail -n 1
alias ls="lsd"

➜  ~ ls -ldrwxr-xr-x lex staff 192 B  11 months ago  ai_assistant
drwxr-xr-x lex staff  96 B  8 months ago   ai_completion
drwxr-xr-x lex staff 128 B  7 months ago   Applications
drwxr-xr-x lex staff 256 B  11 months ago  Dendron