Pipe ls -l into DataFrame

ls.jl

using DataFrames
using Dates # I am on 0.3

# Note the quoting style and the custom time-style
# sed is used to remove softlinks "dir" -> "../dir"
cmd = `ls -1 -l --quoting-style=c --time-style='+%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M'` |> `sed 's/ -> ".*"$//g'`

df = open(cmd, "r", STDOUT) do io
 readtable(io, header=false, 
               separator=' ', 
               names = [:Permissions, :Links, :Owner, :Group, :Size, :TimeRaw, :Name], 
               skipstart=1
          )
end

# A bit of post-processing

df[:Time] = map(df[:TimeRaw]) do date
 DateTime(date, "+y-m-d_H:M")
end

delete!(df, :TimeRaw)