Re: du enhancement

[Dragan Simic]

On 2023-10-20 15:55, Arsen Arsenović wrote:
> Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org> writes:
>
> > On 2023-10-20 15:18, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> > > On 20/10/2023 00:22, Rusty Duplessis wrote:
> > > > Would be nice to have an option to append a / to the end of 
> > > > directory names,
> > > > so that you can distinguish between a file and directory when using 
> > > > -a.
> > > > Something like -F option to ls.
> > > It's a good suggestion.
> > > I generally only use du with single files / dirs,
> > > or otherwise I use a wrapper that makes dirs obvious (though 
> > > coloring):
> > > http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/dutop
> > > I.e. the default output from du -a is hard to parse.
> >
> > How about making the output of du(1) colored the same way as it 
> > currently is in
> > ls(1)?  I'd be willing to work on implementing that.
>
> I was about to post the same.  I see no reason why du couldn't (or
> shouldn't) do that based on normal coloring logic already present in 
> ls.
>
> Are there other tools that could use the treatment, too?

On a somewhat unrelated note, I've been thinking already about adding 
coloring to md5sum(1) and the related utilities, green for "OK" and red 
for any errors.