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Can ls use nerdfont? Does ls color coding display anywhere near the granularity that lsd and colorls feature?

So please drop the dismissive patronizing tone.

OP's point is that if you know how to use ls you don't need icons and extra granularity in color scheme to understand the output.

It’s not a valid point nor was it properly articulated.

It’s obviously not a matter of needing, but of aesthetics and usability, and that’s very much a valid pursuit.

The same is true of reading a hex dump of the inode table. Improved UIs can matter.

Yes. Learn to use dircolors.

Prove it. Show me the output of BSD or GNU ls and compare it with lsd.

Go to your dircolors file in /etc/dircolors, if it’s not there create it first with the dircolors command. Make sure your terminal is using a nerdfont patched font. Set colors in dircolors for various file types to whatever you want and append or prefix whatever icons you want to use. Done. Define granular rules for other extensions if you wish.

Have you looked at lsd?

How does dircolors add support to nerdfont?

How does it add different colors to user, group, permissions in the equivalent of ls -l?

Also, dircolors is not included in OS X.

I’m sorry, I didn’t read your answer right. I’ll try what you suggested when get some time on a Linux box

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