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Add a -l flag for listing more details about the files. #491

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tewalds opened this issue Oct 1, 2019 · 6 comments · Fixed by #556
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Add a -l flag for listing more details about the files. #491

tewalds opened this issue Oct 1, 2019 · 6 comments · Fixed by #556
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tewalds commented Oct 1, 2019

fd is great for listing the files that match some pattern, but if I want to know more details about those files (eg permissions, size, owner, modification date) I need to run them through ls or exa. fd pattern -x ls -l isn't such a great experience though: it isn't colored, the order is random, and the columns don't align if the file sizes aren't similar. Given that -l is the most common flag to ls, why not also support it in fd?
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sharkdp commented Oct 2, 2019

Thank you for your feedback.

fd pattern -x ls -l isn't such a great experience though: it isn't colored, the order is random, and the columns don't align if the file sizes aren't similar.

All of this can be solved by using --exec-batch/-X instead of --exec/-x and telling ls to colorize the results:

fd … -X ls -l --color=auto

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tewalds commented Oct 2, 2019

I tried -X, but it didn't work, though maybe that's because I'm using the version in apt. Either way, fd … -X ls -l --color=auto doesn't exactly roll off the tongue. Could fd -l ... be a shortcut for that?

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sharkdp commented Oct 6, 2019

I tried -X, but it didn't work, though maybe that's because I'm using the version in apt.

-X has been introduced in fd 7.3.0.

Either way, fd … -X ls -l --color=auto doesn't exactly roll off the tongue. Could fd -l ... be a shortcut for that?

I certainly don't want to add ls -l-like functionality to fd, but I might be convinced to add something like this as an alias for -X ls -l --color=auto. This could also be a nice solution for #482.

However, I would first like to leave this for discussion.

A possible counter-argument is that we would have to choose a particular set of command-line options for ls. ls -l --color=always would be one choice, but others might prefer a different combination.

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tewalds commented Oct 7, 2019

If the argument against adding ls -l functionality to fd directly is the amount of extra work and code duplication, maybe exa can be used as a library? It's also in rust and already implements ls -l functionality, with colors.

As for --color=auto vs always, why not tie that to fd's own --color flag? Just propagate it through to ls.

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Add -l/--list option
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Add a new `-l`/`--list` option to show more details about the search results. This is basically
an alias for `--exec-batch ls -l` with some additional `ls` options.
This can be used in order to:
    * see metadata like permissions, owner, file size, modification times (#491)
    * see symlink targets (#482)
    * achieve a determinstic output order (#324, #196, #159)
    * avoid duplicate search results when multiple search paths are given (#405)
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Add -l/--list option
462cf75 
Add a new `-l`/`--list` option to show more details about the search results. This is basically
an alias for `--exec-batch ls -l` with some additional `ls` options.
This can be used in order to:
    * see metadata like permissions, owner, file size, modification times (#491)
    * see symlink targets (#482)
    * achieve a deterministic output order (#324, #196, #159)
    * avoid duplicate search results when multiple search paths are given (#405)
sharkdp added a commit that referenced this issue Apr 3, 2020
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Add -l/--list option
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Add a new `-l`/`--list` option to show more details about the search results. This is basically
an alias for `--exec-batch ls -l` with some additional `ls` options.
This can be used in order to:
    * see metadata like permissions, owner, file size, modification times (#491)
    * see symlink targets (#482)
    * achieve a deterministic output order (#324, #196, #159)
    * avoid duplicate search results when multiple search paths are given (#405)
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sharkdp commented Apr 3, 2020

This has been implemented in #556.

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sharkdp commented Apr 16, 2020

This has now been released in fd v8.0.

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