NAME

Dir::ls - List the contents of a directory

SYNOPSIS

use Dir::ls;

print "$_\n" for ls; # defaults to current working directory

print "$_: ", -s "/foo/bar/$_", "\n" for ls '/foo/bar', {-a => 1, sort => 'size'};

DESCRIPTION

Provides the function "ls", which returns the contents of a directory in a similar manner to the GNU coreutils command ls(1).

FUNCTIONS

ls

my @contents = ls $dir, \%options;

Takes a directory path and optional hashref of options, and returns a list of items in the directory. Home directories represented by ~ will be expanded by Path::ExpandTilde. If no directory path is passed, the current working directory will be used. Like in ls(1), the returned names are relative to the passed directory path, so if you want to use a filename (such as passing it to open or stat), you must prefix it with the directory path, with ~ expanded if present.

# Check the size of a file in current user's home directory
my @contents = ls '~';
say -s "$ENV{HOME}/$contents[0]";

By default, hidden files and directories (those starting with .) are omitted, and the results are sorted by name according to the current locale (see perllocale for more information).

Accepts the following options (any prefixed hyphens are ignored):

a

all

Include hidden files and directories.

A

almost-all

Include hidden files and directories, but not . or ...

B

ignore-backups

Omit files and directories ending in ~.

c

Sort by ctime (change time) in seconds since the epoch.

F

classify

Append classification indicators to the end of file and directory names. Equivalent to 'indicator-style' => 'classify'.

f

Equivalent to passing all and setting sort to none.

file-type

Append file-type indicators to the end of file and directory names. Equivalent to 'indicator-style' => 'file-type'.

group-directories-first

Return directories then files. The sort algorithm will be applied within these groupings, but U or sort => 'none' will disable the grouping.

hide

Omit files and directories matching given Text::Glob pattern. Overriden by a/all or A/almost-all.

I

ignore

Omit files and directories matching given Text::Glob pattern.

indicator-style

Append indicators to the end of filenames according to the specified style. Recognized styles are: none (default), slash (appends / to directories), file-type (appends all of the below indicators except *), and classify (appends all of the below indicators).

/ directory
@ symbolic link
= socket
| named pipe (FIFO)
* executable

Use of indicator types other than slash will render the resulting filenames suitable only for display due to the extra characters.

p

Append / to the end of directory names. Equivalent to 'indicator-style' => 'slash'.

r

reverse

Reverse sort order (unless U or sort => 'none' specified).

sort

Specify sort algorithm other than the default sort-by-name. Valid values are: none, extension, size, time, or version.

S

Sort by file size in bytes (descending). Equivalent to sort => 'size'.

t

Sort by mtime (modification time) in seconds since the epoch. Equivalent to sort => 'time'.

u

Sort by atime (access time) in seconds since the epoch.

U

Return entries in directory order (unsorted). Equivalent to sort => 'none'.

v

Sort naturally by version numbers within the name. Uses Sort::filevercmp for sorting. Equivalent to sort => 'version'.

X

Sort by (last) file extension, according to the current locale. Equivalent to sort => 'extension'.

CAVEATS

This is only an approximation of ls(1). It makes an attempt to give the same output under the supported options, but there may be differences in edge cases. Weird things might happen with sorting of non-ASCII filenames, or on non-Unixlike systems. Lots of options aren't supported yet. Patches welcome.

BUGS

Report any issues on the public bugtracker.

AUTHOR

Dan Book <dbook@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is Copyright (c) 2017 by Dan Book.

This is free software, licensed under:

The Artistic License 2.0 (GPL Compatible)

SEE ALSO

Path::Tiny, ls(1)