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+#!/bin/bash
+# Copyright (C) 2014 Ian Kelling
+
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+
+# ls -lA with enhanced formatting
+# octal permissions
+# omited acl type specifier
+# better hard link count: number of subdirectories or number of linked files or omitted if 0
+# better human readable size
+# more natural date/time format for my American raised eyes
+ll() {
+ local x y z q perm padding line binls sizePadding middle tail size
+ local -a lines
+ binls=$(type -P ls)
+ local first=true
+ local aclchar=false
+ # there's no way to tell if ls uses the acl specifier unless we loop over the data twice
+ # the 11th char is either
+ # . for selinux context
+ # + for any other kind of acl
+ # or blank for no other kind of acl
+ # I don't want to see this generally.
+ while read line; do
+ lines+=("$line")
+ [[ ! ${line:10:11} == " " ]] && aclchar=true
+ done< <( "$binls" -lAh --color=always "--time-style=+%m-%d-%y
+%m-%d %I:%M %p" "$@" )
+
+ for line in "${lines[@]}"; do
+ # very first line starts with some non printing chars
+ if $first; then
+ line=${line#$'\E[00m'}
+ first=false
+ fi
+ if ! [[ $line == [-dscbl][-r][-w][-xsS][-r][-w][-xsS][-r][-w][-xtT]* ]]; then
+ printf "%s\n" "$line"
+ else
+ perm=0
+ for (( x=0; x<=8; x++ )); do
+ y=${line:$(( -1*x + 9 )):1}
+ [[ $y == [tT] ]] && perm=$(( perm + 512 ))
+ if [[ $y == [sS] ]]; then
+ [[ $x == 3 ]] && perm=$(( perm + 1024 ))
+ [[ $x == 6 ]] && perm=$(( perm + 2048 ))
+ fi
+ [[ $y != [-ST] ]] && perm=$(( perm + 2**x ))
+ done
+ if $aclchar; then
+ y="${line:11}"
+ else
+ y="${line:10}"
+ fi
+ t="${y#"${y%%[![:space:]]*}"}" # remove any initial spaces
+ hardLinks="${t%%[[:space:]]*}" # remove everything beyond first word
+ z=$(( ${#y} - ${#t} + ${#hardLinks} )) # length of hardlink string including padding
+ middle=${y#*[^ ]* }
+ size=${middle#*[^ ]* *[^ ]* }
+ middle=${middle%"$size"}
+ tail=${size#*[^ ]* }
+ size=${size%"$tail"}
+ declare -i sizePadding="${#size} - 1"
+ size=( $size ) # remove spaces
+ size=${size/.?/}
+ # ignore the hardlinks that files/dirs always have
+ if [[ ${line:0:1} == d ]]; then
+ hardLinks=$(( hardLinks - 2 ))
+ else
+ hardLinks=$(( hardLinks - 1 ))
+ fi
+ [[ $hardLinks == 0 ]] && hardLinks=
+ printf "%s%4o%${z}s%s%${sizePadding}s%s\n" \
+ "${line:0:1}" $perm "$hardLinks" " $middle" "$size" " $tail"
+ fi
+ done
+}
+