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Eza: A modern, maintained replacement for ls

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Re: Eza: A modern, maintained replacement for ls

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Post by scns »

Tor3 wrote: post #7

I have a problem with all terminal tools that insist on using colors to distinguish between various file types or attributes etc ('ls' is often set up like that too for distros, but I simply delete the config which sets that, the default doesn't). I use a terminal background which is easy on my eyes, and those color schemes always include colors which clash with the background or makes them hard to see in other ways.…

Solarized is easy on the eyes and the colours are chosen for readability.

https://ethanschoonover.com/solarized/

The list on the site lacks some entries. Konsole has it built in and i bet Gnome Terminal too.

Re: Eza: A modern, maintained replacement for ls

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Post by jiehong »

alabhyajindal wrote: post #3

My ls usage went down 100% after I switched to fish shell. The built in Alt + l command lists the directory contents. Very helpful! And also results in a cleaner shell history.

I cannot find this shortcut in https://fishshell.com/docs/current/interactive.html.

Do you know where it's documented by any chance?

Re: Eza: A modern, maintained replacement for ls

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Post by ognyankulev »

jiehong wrote: post #12
alabhyajindal wrote: post #3

My ls usage went down 100% after I switched to fish shell. The built in Alt + l command lists the directory contents. Very helpful! And also results in a cleaner shell history.

I cannot find this shortcut in https://fishshell.com/docs/current/interactive.html . Do you know where it's documented by any chance?

It's there, in Shared bindings: "Alt+L lists the contents of the current directory, unless the cursor is over a directory argument, in which case the contents of that directory will be listed."

Re: Eza: A modern, maintained replacement for ls

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Post by jryb »

dsjkvf wrote: post #14

What's the point, though? You still have to rely on POSIX and / or GNU tools in most scenarios, and if already knowing / using those, then why bother to switch to anything else?

I don't know how common my situation is, but I don't have any of those constraints. I have eza aliased to ls both on my daily driver and all of my work servers and it hasn't caused me a single problem.

Re: Eza: A modern, maintained replacement for ls

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Post by fsiefken »

Neat, it also works on termux, I like the tree output. Is there a parameter to just display the size, name and date format YYMMDD or rickdate for even shorter display, or can I hack it in the rust code? The permission and user column output distract me and take up space. With rust it can also be compiled to wasm and run on ios a-shell (which runs vim and python wasm and other smallish wasm's).

Re: Eza: A modern, maintained replacement for ls

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Post by 000ooo000 »

alabhyajindal wrote: post #3

My ls usage went down 100% after I switched to fish shell. The built in Alt + l command lists the directory contents. Very helpful! And also results in a cleaner shell history.

Bash users: FYI you can bind shortcuts like this, too. I have my right hand home row keys bound to __bash_ctrl_n() (for e.g.), and various tools in my dotfiles override these functions (git, if installed, sets up __bash_ctrl_e() to run git status and git log).

Re: Eza: A modern, maintained replacement for ls

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Post by fsiefken »

tormeh wrote: post #9
alabhyajindal wrote: post #3

My ls usage went down 100% after I switched to fish shell. The built in Alt + l command lists the directory contents. Very helpful! And also results in a cleaner shell history.

Also many shells come with greatly improved ls implementations built in, like that of nushell.

yes, but the good thing is that you don't have switch shells with this. I'm running nushell on windows, which is nice, but I haven't got it as concise with $env.config.table.mode = "none", it also doesn't feature the tree display

Re: Eza: A modern, maintained replacement for ls

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Post by hggh »

alabhyajindal wrote: post #3

My ls usage went down 100% after I switched to fish shell. The built in Alt + l command lists the directory contents. Very helpful! And also results in a cleaner shell history.

> And also results in a cleaner shell history

In Bash you can also keep the history cleaner by adding ls (or other commands) to the HISTIGNORE env var: https://superuser.com/questions/232885/can-you-share-wisdom-...

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