vkl - a better "ls"-experience

This Python script is a wrapper for the GNU/Linux ls-tool for simple cases. To be precise, it's a substitute (only) for the following command:

: ls -lt --all --reverse --directory --classify --color=auto

In contrast to the standard ls output, this script visualizes time in a much better way:

[[file:images/vkl-Screenshot.png]]

Normal ls command is listing all files without proper way to visualize brand-new, new, old, and very old files. By introducing horizontal bars that sub-divide the output in a pseudo-logarithmical way, the user gets a much better feeling on the age of the items in the current directory.

Target group: users of a GNU/UNIX command line or similar
Hosted on github: https://github.com/novoid/vkl

By the way: yes, I tried to get this functionality to the GNU project to be included to ls. I failed miserably. To me, they don't seem to add such features for many years. Very conservative :-(

** Installation

Get it from [[https://github.com/novoid/vkl][GitHub]] or install it via «pip install vkl».

** Usage

#+BEGIN_SRC sh :results output :wrap src vkl --help #+END_SRC

#+BEGIN_src Usage: vkl

This tool lists the current directory content in various metric GNU ls does not provide.

Options: -h, --help show this help message and exit -l, --log displays directory content by a pseudo logarithmic time (default option) -m, --mtime sort items using modification time (default option) -c, --ctime sort items using change time -a, --atime sort items using access time -d, --delegate delegate additional arguments to ls command -p, --primitivels use primitive output of directory rather than using GNU ls --debug enable (senseless) debug output #+END_src

Examples:

: vkl ... the simplest case, sorted by modification time

: vkl -c ... sorted by change time

: vkl -p ... using its own (primitive, self-written) output to circumvent output issues or to use it on non-GNU/UNIX system

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