How to get that colorful 'ls' output dmz keeps on showing us

A lot of people keeps on sending me emails and asking how I get ls to look like this:
So I figured I'd write this down so I can direct them here instead. :-)
First of - I've made my LS_COLORS (dircolors, really) configuration public. It contains about 300 different filetypes as of this writing. It's grouped by ... uh, group. Music files, video, pictures, text documents etc. Follow the link for more information and installation instructions.
Second, I use ls++ - colorized ls on steroids. It can colorize files matching PATTERN, thus allowing you to also differentiate files missing an extension. It also calculates the relative mtimes - see the above screenshot.
See ls++(3) and ls++.conf(3) after installation for more information.
Last edited by dmz (2011-07-16 14:55:01)

Stalafin wrote:As I see it, ls++ by default acts more like $ ls -lh. Are you planning to extend ls++ to the full functionality of ls?
It's more like ls -hAlv --group-directories-first --time=ctime --time-style=+%s . :-)
I wont make any attempt to include every possible combination of ls options - if there's something special you're missing I can look at it though.
Stalafin wrote:Also, the default color you use for your terms is #121212 (for instance the background of the terms you took the screenshots of)? I am using #1e1e1e and especially the timestamp of files that haven't been changed for a long time are hardly visible :-( .
If you fire up man ls++.conf you'll see what numbers corresponds to what element; for example, color index 4 is used for 'day'. So change the value of $c[4] in the config to any color you'd like.
Stalafin wrote:And on another note: I checked your Xresources: what is the definition the definition of all colors from 0 to 255 good for? Isn't one usually defining only 16?
Normally, yes. But I'm not too happy with the default colors, so I've changed some of them.
See colorcoke and my urxvt fork for more information.

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