• lsicon
  • Prerequisites
  • Install
  • Usage
  • Customize

lsicon

Simple ls command enhancer in less than 12K (only uses bash/ls/awk)

Much faster than other tools (here /usr containing ~150000 files):

Tool	Command	Time (wsl ubuntu)	Time (centos9)
		tty notty	tty notty
GNU ls	ls -lR --color /usr	10.250s 6.001s	2.011s 1.049s
lsicon	ls+ -lR /usr	10.878s 6.096s	3.202s 1.269s
lsd	lsd -lR /usr	27.941s 13.698s	8.564s 2.627s
eza	eza --icons -lR /usr	31.340s 28.509s	8.795s 4.751s

Prerequisites

• GNU ls
  • on BSD/MacOS coreutils package needed
• awk
• bash
• Nerd Font in your Terminal

Install

You can use a plugin manager, like the famous thefly

. <(curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/joknarf/thefly/main/thefly) install
fly add joknarf/lsicon

or just clone the repo, and put ls+* files in dir in your PATH

git clone https://github.com/joknarf/lsicon

Usage

The lsicon command ls+ is used with exactly same options as GNU ls

ls+
ls+ -alrt
...

You may want to replace the ls command with ls+ using:

alias ls='ls+'

Customize

You can customize all icons association :

• editing ls+.icons
• creating a ~/.config/ls+/icons file
• format of file : <icon> <ext> [<ext>...]

You can customize all colors association :

• editing ls+.colors
• creating a ~/.config/ls+/colors file
• format of file : <colorname> <ext> [<ext>...]

You can customize all theme colors :

• editing ls+.theme
• creating a ~/.config/ls+/theme file
• format of file : <colorname> <r;g;b>
• creating an empty theme, will use standard 16 colors