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My friend was saying to me today that dir in windows is superior to ls in every way. So I created windowfied for macOS on homebrew. This is dumb. I hope you love it.

brew install mnky9800n/tools/windowfied

https://windowfied.com/

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I know this is a joke, but as soon as I saw:

    06/22/2025

I backed away very quickly. I assume actual Windows uses the locale, so my eyeballs wouldn't be assaulted with this abomination.

For Linux/Mac users who are happy to stick with ls, but want a slash-formatted date, you can get something that is sane for you (whether or not it is sane for the rest of us) by running:

    ls -l -D '%x'

Where -D specifies a custom date format and %x means 'the date in your locale'.

This comes in a great timing to pair with the recent release of a modernized "edit" tool from the ms-dos days. You can now download edit for mac, linux and windows and enjoy the simple and nostalgic editor's remake. Personally I quite like it, the shortcuts are super easy. It's a bit barebones but it is so easy and accessible that it might replace nano for me in certain use cases.

You didn't create a good link, try this: https://windowfied.com/

Thanks! I fixed it.

Good luck. Some Apple fans say that making Mac OS more like Windows is bad. But there is also Powershell for Mac OS: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/insta...

  * Requires Homebrew. If you don't have it, what are you even doing with your life?

Nix, spending quality time with the family as opposed to debugging architecture-specific formulæ errors.

Haha. good point.

Homebrew: your barrel hasn't fermented your cork, so your hops won't barley your lager. Firkin try again.

Ah yes, unnecessarily skeuomorphic technobabble is the best kind of technobabble.

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