⚡️ nat ⚡️

What is nat?

Nat is a complete replacement for the 'ls' command

Nats features include

• Showing file permissions
• Showing file size
• Showing the date that the file was modified last
• Showing the user that the file belongs to
• Showing the group that the file belongs to
• An easy to use file search
• A splash of color to distinguish between files and folders

Join the nat discord server

Highlights

• A rather large german tech blog wrote an article about nat

Usage

Installation macOs

install the latest release from https://github.com/willdoescode/nat/releases/

then add the nat file to your path /usr/local/bin/

to alias ls to nat add

alias ls='nat'

in your zshrc at ~/.zshrc

Installation Linux

Linux binary also in releases compiled using docker

apt-get install rustc cargo
cd /tmp

git clone https://github.com/willdoescode/nat.git
cd /tmp/nat

cargo build --release

cd target/release

./nat

To install nat locally

cd /tmp/nat
cargo install --path .

and add this line to your $HOME/.bashrc

export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/.cargo/bin

On Arch Linux

yay -S nat-git

Using nat with ls

in zshrc or bashrc

alias ls='nat'

Running

nat <dir>

Searching for file

nat <dir (leave empty if in wanted dir)> -f <file>

To edit the code

git clone https://github.com/willdoescode/nat.git
cd nat

Uninstall steps

rm /usr/local/bin/nat

Understanding permissions output

Imagine file permissions as three ones or zeros

000 no access
100 read
010 write
001 execute
101 read and execute
110 read and write
011 write and execute
111 read write and execute

what nat does is it combines these permissions for

user-group-other

so if the user has read write and execute and the group has read and write and other has no perms the output will look like

rwxrw----

If all groups have read write and execute the output would look like

rwxrwxrwx