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·June 23, 2025

My friend was saying to me today that dir in windows is superior to ls in every way. So I created windowfied for macOS on homebrew. This is dumb. I hope you love it.

brew install mnky9800n/tools/windowfied

https://windowfied.com/

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oneeyedpigeon

I know this is a joke, but as soon as I saw:

    06/22/2025

I backed away very quickly. I assume actual Windows uses the locale, so my eyeballs wouldn't be assaulted with this abomination.

For Linux/Mac users who are happy to stick with ls, but want a slash-formatted date, you can get something that is sane for you (whether or not it is sane for the rest of us) by running:

    ls -l -D '%x'

Where -D specifies a custom date format and %x means 'the date in your locale'.

orionblastar

You didn't create a good link, try this: https://windowfied.com/

mnky9800n

Thanks! I fixed it.

orionblastar

Good luck. Some Apple fans say that making Mac OS more like Windows is bad. But there is also Powershell for Mac OS: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/insta...

bigyabai

  * Requires Homebrew. If you don't have it, what are you even doing with your life?

Nix, spending quality time with the family as opposed to debugging architecture-specific formulæ errors.

bravesoul2

Homebrew: your barrel hasn't fermented your cork, so your hops won't barley your lager. Firkin try again.

adlpz

Ah yes, unnecessarily skeuomorphic technobabble is the best kind of technobabble.

mnky9800n

Haha. good point.