[FEATURE REQUEST] Add icons & colorful list support (with a specific flag) #154

Hi,

There are some ls replacements that provide icons support and a more clear and colorful list.

However, I would like to use coreutils, not some other clones just for have this feature.

I think this feature is not only a fancy thing, but it's useful, because the result is definitively more clear an readable on on those ls clones

This is an screenshot example , using ls and eza

ls -a -v --group-directories-first --color=auto

ls -alFh --color=auto --group-directories-first

exa -a --icons --color=auto --group-directories-first

exa -alG --long --icons --header --color=auto --group-directories-first

Someone already made a fork of ls with icons, it would be nice to include this feature in the origial ls , with a more clear colorful result

https://github.com/sebastiencs/ls-icons

To be clear: this new feature has not to be the default, but to be enabled with an additional flag option

Thank you !