gow vs lsd

gow

Unix command line utilities installer for Windows. (by bmatzelle)

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The next gen ls command (by lsd-rs)

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gow		lsd
	Project
12	Mentions	62
6,529	Stars	12,358
-	Growth	3.6%
0.0	Activity	8.2
almost 2 years ago	Latest Commit	4 days ago
NSIS	Language	Rust
-	License	Apache License 2.0

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gow

Posts with mentions or reviews of gow. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-24.

The world if Windows was POSIX compliant
2 projects | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 24 May 2023

And if need so much something like this, you can always use WSL or GOW (https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow)
The amount of times I have accidentally done this...
23 projects | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 16 Feb 2023

I’m honestly shocked no comment I’ve seen here has talked about ‘gnu on windows’ nor Windows Subsystem for Linux. I use both, because I prefer the windows environment but also like linux command lone.
GOW - GNU Linux tools list like “ls” and “chown” ported to Windows
1 project | /r/LinuxShell | 13 Oct 2022
Anyone else a fan of GOW for Windows?
2 projects | /r/commandline | 12 Oct 2022
how the fuck does this make any sense?
6 projects | /r/linuxmasterrace | 12 Oct 2022

Use gow, and WindTerm; and if you want an even better experience install lsd, fd, and lf all of which are downloadable via Chocolatey, the Windows package manager
i am confused
1 project | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 11 Aug 2022

Gnu on windows has you for the missing utils https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki
ffmpeg Options/ Flags to Preserve & Maintain ALL TYPES of date time stamps during a Remux within a File container as well as "File System" Data Time stamps (Created, Modified etc)? Saw "touch" mentioned (how to in windows?)?
2 projects | /r/ffmpeg | 10 Aug 2021

Here is link number 1 - Previous text "GOW"
If Fuchsia eventually makes its way into the desktop/laptop space, do you think it will support Linux-like commands for the terminal?
1 project | /r/Fuchsia | 8 May 2021

¹ Bash was ported natively, zsh runs through mingw quite well. ² https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow
Limit image count number by deleting old image tags via FIFO-principle?
1 project | /r/docker | 15 Apr 2021

Ah, you're on Windows, so you don't have those utilities. Looks like these days, folks are using GoW (GNU on Windows) to install some useful GNU utilities on Windows machines: https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow
My first GUI (and also first Python project)!
2 projects | /r/Python | 2 Mar 2021

Being using GOW since forever as a lightweight cygwin/msys (native) alternative.

lsd

Posts with mentions or reviews of lsd. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-04.

🐚🦀Comandos shell reescritos em Rust
9 projects | dev.to | 4 Oct 2023

lsd
LSD (LSDeluxe)
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Sep 2023
Exa Is Deprecated
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Sep 2023
Is there a zsh plugin to replicate the nushell ls function?
2 projects | /r/zsh | 14 Apr 2023

If you use lsd there is a --total-size option
How do I get folder icons on the output of ls?
3 projects | /r/zsh | 13 Apr 2023
Is there a non-bloated way to get the terminal (xfce) to show colors for things like the prompt, files, folders, variables, and so forth?
3 projects | /r/linux4noobs | 26 Mar 2023

ls aliased to lsd
What are some lesser-known Linux software that are absolutely life changing?
8 projects | /r/linuxmasterrace | 26 Feb 2023

Just in case people don’t get the sarcasm here https://github.com/Peltoche/lsd
The amount of times I have accidentally done this...
23 projects | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 16 Feb 2023
Name the tools you can't live without!
23 projects | /r/sysadmin | 15 Feb 2023

lsd
14 Rust Tools for Linux Terminal Dwellers
1 project | /r/commandline | 31 Jan 2023

lsd is faster & more customizable than exa

What are some alternatives?

When comparing gow and lsd you can also consider the following projects:

WindTerm - A professional cross-platform SSH/Sftp/Shell/Telnet/Serial terminal.

exa - A modern replacement for ‘ls’.

ConEmu - Customizable Windows terminal with tabs, splits, quake-style, hotkeys and more

eza - A modern, maintained replacement for ls

simple-sudoku - A simple python tkinter sudoku program

zsh-aliases-exa - zsh plugin adding aliases for the exa command-line tool

cmder - Lovely console emulator package for Windows

iTerm2-Color-Schemes - Over 250 terminal color schemes/themes for iTerm/iTerm2. Includes ports to Terminal, Konsole, PuTTY, Xresources, XRDB, Remmina, Termite, XFCE, Tilda, FreeBSD VT, Terminator, Kitty, MobaXterm, LXTerminal, Microsoft's Windows Terminal, Visual Studio, Alacritty

lf - Terminal file manager

ohmyzsh - 🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,300+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.

thefuck - Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command.

LS_COLORS - A collection of LS_COLORS definitions; needs your contribution!