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Exa, a modern replacement for ls

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Re: Exa, a modern replacement for ls

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Post by shric »

prewett wrote: post #351
hk__2 wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I hate using 'du' Why? On the other hand, I like to have small tools that do one thing and do it well, and that you can combine to do more powerful things. Personal preference, I guess.

In my case the problem is I'm running out of disk space and need to find stuff to delete. So, `du -csh `. Wow, three huge directories. `cd dir1; du -csh `. Repeat. `du -d 3` would seem to be the solution, but it is pretty noisy. I really want something that prints all the "big" stuff in a tree, nicely indented and sorted by size. I end up using a KDE app ported to macOS that shows all the big files in packed rectangl…

Probably KDirStat / WinDirStat / Disk Inventory X

Re: Exa, a modern replacement for ls

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Post by bennofs »

prewett wrote: post #351
hk__2 wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I hate using 'du' Why? On the other hand, I like to have small tools that do one thing and do it well, and that you can combine to do more powerful things. Personal preference, I guess.

In my case the problem is I'm running out of disk space and need to find stuff to delete. So, `du -csh `. Wow, three huge directories. `cd dir1; du -csh `. Repeat. `du -d 3` would seem to be the solution, but it is pretty noisy. I really want something that prints all the "big" stuff in a tree, nicely indented and sorted by size. I end up using a KDE app ported to macOS that shows all the big files in packed rectangl…

Ncdu is a command line application that does this (a tree with sizes)

Re: Exa, a modern replacement for ls

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Post by fnj »

cannam wrote: post #73
twic wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have an unreasonable and unquenchable hatred for developers who assume that their users have dark-background terminals. Honestly, the most insanely passionate contempt.

Drives me a bit nuts too, and I would disagree with some of the other things in this page as well (e.g. the preference for "human-readable" file sizes). But there is a great joy in being able to release a new utility and say about it, "This is how it should work." It reflects your own desires, you understand it, you made the decisions that went into it and have actually thought about the alternatives. There's a delig…

> "human-readable" file sizes).

Nothing is more human readable than "123,456,789", so I think the problem is just the way you go about making them human readable. I couldn't agree more that lurching between B, kB, MB, and GB just because the file size changes it extremely jarring and disconcerting, and actually makes comparing the size much more difficult.

Re: Exa, a modern replacement for ls

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Post by singingboyo »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #309
samstave wrote: post #231

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exa: error while loading shared libraries: libhttp_parser.so.2.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Interesting. Why does it need an HTTP parser?! Some accidental dependency maybe?

Looks like it has some form of git support, via libgit2. Dependency chain for that is probably where it came from.

Re: Exa, a modern replacement for ls

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Post by fnj »

kabdib wrote: post #212

Color is one of the first things I turn off. So many tools color files in ways that are very difficult to read (dark blue against a black background, really?) I'm colorblind, too, so your red/orange/green distinctions are utterly wasted on me. Raw color is a very flaky and low fidelity way to communicate to a user. Animation, on the other hand: Give that super important file that's somehow busted or very active some…

No idea on earth why you are downvoted. My sympathies for your challenged vision. Your objection is well founded, and your suggestion has merit.

Re: Exa, a modern replacement for ls

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Post by yAnonymous »

renox wrote: post #186

I find quite funny that the author is so convinced that the use of colors is the "right default". 1) I'm colorblind so my view of colors is different from yours. 2) I find that any tool which use many colors suck: there will be a color combination which will be hard to read (for example git log: the sha1 keys are dark red on black, unreadable) but using just a few color is very nice (git diff: 3 colors, one for +, on…

Yeah, let's all adapt to your physical deficits.

Re: Exa, a modern replacement for ls

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Post by cytzol »

fastball wrote: post #226
renox wrote: post #186

I find quite funny that the author is so convinced that the use of colors is the "right default". 1) I'm colorblind so my view of colors is different from yours. 2) I find that any tool which use many colors suck: there will be a color combination which will be hard to read (for example git log: the sha1 keys are dark red on black, unreadable) but using just a few color is very nice (git diff: 3 colors, one for +, on…

Congratulations! You are part of the roughly 4.5% of the global population with colorblindness. Applying your physical shortcomings to a project when you are by and large the minority makes very little sense. If `ls` is better for you, use `ls`.

I do not like this attitude one bit. exa isn't here to make money, it's here to list files; if somebody can't use the software, then that's one less member of the community and one less person who can offer suggestions, rather than a resource who wouldn't give me a return on my investment.

If you're colourblind and two different parts of the interface look too similar to you, then please, raise a bug.

Re: Exa, a modern replacement for ls

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Post by swah »

Very interesting - thanks.

    /exa/src $ cloc .
        41 text files.
        41 unique files.                              
        0 files ignored.

    http://cloc.sourceforge.net v 1.60  T=0.10 s (423.5 files/s, 64346.3 lines/s)
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Language                     files          blank        comment           code
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Rust                            41           1152            929           4149
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    SUM:                            41           1152            929           4149
    -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Re: Exa, a modern replacement for ls

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Post by zichy »

fnj wrote: post #375
kabdib wrote: post #212

Color is one of the first things I turn off. So many tools color files in ways that are very difficult to read (dark blue against a black background, really?) I'm colorblind, too, so your red/orange/green distinctions are utterly wasted on me. Raw color is a very flaky and low fidelity way to communicate to a user. Animation, on the other hand: Give that super important file that's somehow busted or very active some…

No idea on earth why you are downvoted. My sympathies for your challenged vision. Your objection is well founded, and your suggestion has merit.

People mistake accessibility for personal taste.
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