ls-color is a simple application written in C to colorize ls output similar to trapd00r/ls– (see Motivation).
You can install using GNU autotools:
autoreconf -i ./configure make make install
Some colors and UI symbols can be customized editing the src/config.h file. ls-color needs to be recompiled for any changes to take effect.
ls-color accepts the same arguments as ls but you can’t display different fields.
(Also, some arguments are used internally to ensure some required fields are present)
Some time ago I saw trapd00r/ls– project. It looked really cool and I wanted to try it. Unfortunatly I didn’t want to install PERL dependencies just for that so I ended giving up. Later, I decided to just do my own implementation in C so I created ls-color. I never used ls-- so I’m not sure how is different from ls-color. But ls-- is a more mature project and probably has more features so maybe you should try it instead of ls-color.
- Add support to customize output fields (owner, group, datetimes, etc)