Globs don't help much when I want file attributes and sizes. Yeah I can pipe to something that can do it, but it would be nice to just get filenames, attrs, size, dates in a json array as output.
Look ls is one of the most basic and natural Unix commands. Make it modern and useful.
Bash gibberish is fun for gatekeeping scripting neckbeards, but it's not what a proper OS should have.
the thing with the coreutils is they provide basic core functionality; you dont need bash on your system - `ls` is not bash (and then you still end up with busybox where json still would not be part of ls). add more utilities to your system to do more complex logic; ive used similar apps to this in the past: https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc
there's also using zero terminiated lines in ls with `--zero`; then piping that to a number of apps which also support similar (read,xargs,ect)
might also checkout powershell on linux which may suite your needs where instead of string manipulation, everything is a class object
Look ls is one of the most basic and natural Unix commands. Make it modern and useful.
Bash gibberish is fun for gatekeeping scripting neckbeards, but it's not what a proper OS should have.