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[1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/dirc...
I'm not gonna hate on this too much; side projects like this are fun and help the creator understand the filesystem-side of their operating system. The colors are pretty, there's some nifty features to better understand the file list you're staring at. This won't ever replace `ls` because it's not POSIX compliant, but that's okay because I don't think it needs to be. I have run into cases where downstream packages ha…
exa is already several years old and has 15 K thousands stars on Github. Not to mention all the people using it that never bothered to give it a star.
This page doesn’t actually list any features or explain why you should use exa instead of ls. The homepage [0] is more useful in this regard. 0: https://the.exa.website/
Never used a multi-user system with a moderate amount of files, did you? Let alone distributed filesystems.
I've been using lsd[0] as my ls replacement for a while. I like that it has a config file for defaults, so I don't have to change a bunch of aliases when setting up a new system. 0: https://github.com/Peltoche/lsd
I'm also enjoying lsd, to the point where I've aliased ls to it. The file icons are fun.
I've been using lsd[0] as my ls replacement for a while. I like that it has a config file for defaults, so I don't have to change a bunch of aliases when setting up a new system. 0: https://github.com/Peltoche/lsd
So far I've used ripgrep, fd-find, sd, exa, bat. I care less about speed and more about ease-of-use and beautiful output. Another bonus is standardized tooling between Mac and Linux; little bsd differences have been driving me nuts since I took a job that forced me into a MacBook, but these tools solve that issue and are easy to install with Homebrew.
I have nothing against exa, but the two examples in this post are are not correct for any sort of recent system. > Here’s an example. exa, by default, runs the stat system call on every file it encounters. So does "ls" ... for at least last 20 years. Just checked on random Ubuntu system I had -- executables and dirs are highlighted with different colors. > exa makes heavy use of colours, treating them as opt-out rath…
I've been using `exa` for over a year now, and I use it as an alias for both `ls` and `tree`. I don't really notice any benefit compared to using `ls`, but I really prefer its tree mode over the default `tree` command. It's nice being able to use the same CLI args and have a similar output format for both `tree` and `ls`.