`{.islink}` and `{.isdir}` don't seem to be working

[mcmikemn]

When I run ls -a1 | fpath -a -s blue -F'{red}{.mode}{/color}{white}\t{owner} / {group}\t{.size}\t{.mtime:%Y-%m-%d}\t{.isreg:{name}}{.islink:{red}{name}{/color}}{.isdir:{blue}{name}{/color}}' I get:

-rw-r--r--      mike / mike     43.0 B  2023-11-20      .smbcredentials{.islink:.smbcredentials}{.isdir:.smbcredentials}
drwxr-xr-x      mike / mike     4.0 KB  2018-02-26      {.islink:Steam}{.isdir:Steam}
/                      {.islink:.steampath}{.isdir:.steampath}

The result is colored appropriately and the {.isreg} command seems to work, but the {.islink} and {.isdir} commands are being displayed and their contents, which should only be conditionally displayed, are always displayed.

Do I have the syntax wrong?

[mcmikemn]

Here's the ls -al for comparison`:

-rw-r--r--   1 mike mike        43 Nov 20  2023  .smbcredentials
drwxr-xr-x   3 mike mike      4096 Feb 26  2018  Steam
lrwxrwxrwx   1 mike mike        29 Jun 28  2023  .steampath -> /home/mike/.steam/sdk32/steam

[thingsiplay]

No, you did nothing wrong. This is a limitation of the way I am replacing the variables. The way I handle it is very simple text replacement, which can be problematic with some variables "inside" other variables. Meaning the color codes in {.isdir:{red}{name}{/color}} are not handled properly. To avoid this problem, you either do not use colors or you can define them outside, like in {red}{.isdir:{name}}{/color} .

I'm not sure how to handle that better without making it too complicated and introduce more edge cases that do not work. EDIT: I could look into the regular expressions that are used in the source code or in the order when stuff is replaced. Until a better way is found, the only solution for you right now would be to just use the color codes outside of the variable.

Another EDIT: The updated command would look like this:

\ls -a1 | fpath -a -s blue -F'{red}{.mode}{/color}{white}\t{owner} / {group}\t{.size}\t{.mtime:%Y-%m-%d}\t{.isreg:{name}}{red}{.islink:{name}}{/color}{blue}{.isdir:{name}}{/color}'

The backslash in front of \ls tells Bash to run the original ls command, not an alias. I trapped into it, as my ls is aliased to eza, which is not 100% compatible. Also generally speaking parsing out ls command is not the most secure way. Maybe use find instead (however it lists "." as well):

find -maxdepth 1 | sort | fpath -a -s blue -F'{red}{.mode}{/color}{white}\t{owner} / {group}\t{.size}\t{.mtime:%Y-%m-%d}\t{.isreg:{name}}{red}{.islink:{name}}{/color}{blue}{.isdir:{name}}{/color}'

[mcmikemn]

That makes sense. Thanks, @thingsiplay.

[thingsiplay]

Closing as not planned, because this is a limitation of the system I am using.