athityakumar/colorls

Add support for socket/pipe/... in long listing

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#490 opened on Dec 10, 2021

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Description

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colorls does not display if file is of type socket or pipe, etc.. at least not on macos 11.6 with colorls 1.4.4

> sw_vers
ProductName:	macOS
ProductVersion:	11.6
BuildVersion:	20G165

> colorls --version
1.4.4

> mkfifo asdf
> ls -l | grep asdf
  rw-r--r--     1   xxxx   staff      0 B     Fri Dec 10 14:04:30 2021    asdf

> /bin/ls -l | grep asdf
prw-r--r--    1 xxxx  staff     0 10 Dez 14:04 asdf
  • Type of issue :
    • Installation
    • Font-related
    • Feature request
    • Bug in existing feature
    • Developer mode : Code quality / Tests / Documentation

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Research direction
Investigate how colorls determines file type in long listing and add case for socket and pipe types.
Tech stack
ruby
Domain
cli
Issue type
Feature
DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
2
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1-3 hours
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Stale
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Clear
Prerequisites
Ruby
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65