GNU ls for Microsoft Windows

ls (also called msls) is a free console utility that lists information on Windows files. It is based on the GNU/Linux ls directory information utility. It displays exhaustive information on Windows files including DACLs/SACLs, integrity levels, reparse points, shortcuts, hard links, symbolic links, hidden streams, encryption, compaction, virtualization, object tracking identifier, and offline status.

Files are shown in different colors based on their type:

An example of the output:

> ls -l
total 158
-ra--a----  1 Alan   68032 Jan 28 17:59 append-only
crw-rw-rw-  1 Alan    3423 Jan 29 04:41 compressed
drwxrwxrwx  1 Alan       0 Jan 27 09:57 dir
-rwE------  1 Alan      15 Jan 27 00:53 encrypted
-rw-r-----$ 1 Alan       5 Jan 24 08:13 file
-rw-r-----$ 1 Alan       5 Jan 24 08:13 file:secret
-rw-rw-rw-  1 Alan   40960 Jan 21 02:54 movie.mpg
-rw------O  1 Alan   32254 Jan 11 12:55 offline.dat
-rwxrwxr-x  1 Alan      10 Jan 29 00:47 prog.exe
-rw-r--r--  1 Ginger   434 Jan 31 18:05 recent
Srw-------  1 Ginger 32254 Jan 11 12:55 sparse-file
lrw-rw-rw-  1 Ginger     0 Jan 12 09:32 x-broken.lnk

ls uses the native Windows API to get the fastest possible performance. You can view all the files in \Windows\System32 (several thousand files) over a network LAN in just a few seconds.

ls can be customized to change colors, verbosity, layout, sorting, annotation, and level of detail.

See the documentation for details.