bls — the better ls command

A modern replacement for ls written in Rust. Displays a colorized, formatted listing of files and directories with last modified timestamps.

Features

• Colorized output (directories in blue, timestamps in green)
• Last modified timestamp for every entry
• Directories listed first, then files
• Hidden file filtering (dotfiles hidden by default)
• List any directory by passing a path argument

Installation

cargo install --path .

Usage

# List current directory
bls

# List a specific directory
bls /path/to/dir

# Show hidden files
bls -a

Example Output

        LastWriteTime     Length   Name
  2026-07-15 14:30          -   src
  2026-07-10 09:15          -   .git
  2026-07-15 14:30        312   Cargo.toml
  2026-07-14 11:00       1024   main.rs

Dependencies

• clap — CLI argument parsing
• colored — Terminal colors
• chrono — Date/time formatting