---
title: "yellow-footed-honeyguide/facad: A modern, colorful directory listing tool for the command line 🗃️"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/yellow-footed-honeyguide-facad-a-modern-colorful-directory-listing-tool-for-the-command-line--j8fecje4b
source_url: https://github.com/yellow-footed-honeyguide/facad
type: article
source: "Hacker News"
published: 2024-10-01T04:02:06.123Z
updated: 2024-12-11T15:11:30.881Z
tags: ["open-source", "tools", "github", "cli"]
reading_time: 1
upvotes: 13
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# yellow-footed-honeyguide/facad: A modern, colorful directory listing tool for the command line 🗃️

**[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 1 min read · 13 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Facad is a modern, colorful directory listing tool for the command line that features emoji-based icons, sorted output with directories first, support for symlinks and executable files, a compact grid display, customizable column widths, and unicode-aware formatting. It can be cloned from GitHub and built using Meson and Ninja or installed system-wide. Contributions are encouraged.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://github.com/yellow-footed-honeyguide/facad>

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