Exa, a modern replacement for ls
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Exa, a modern replacement for ls
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Re: Exa, a modern replacement for ls
#2so... a mix up of the following:
which ls alias ls='ls --color=auto' /bin/ls
tree -L 2
git diff --stat
git status
Re: Exa, a modern replacement for ls
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Re: Exa, a modern replacement for ls
#4Is this intended as a full on ls replacement? As in, does it respect the envvars such as lscolors? Will it silently ignore -h, or will it die violently?
Re: Exa, a modern replacement for ls
#5Is this intended as a full on ls replacement? As in, does it respect the envvars such as lscolors? Will it silently ignore -h, or will it die violently?
From the FAQ:
>Is this a drop-in replacement for ls? No — exa has, in my opinion, much saner defaults than ls, so while the available command-line options are similar, they are not exactly the same. Most of the common options will work consistently, though. For example, exa prints human-readable file sizes by default (when would you not want that?) so ls -h no longer applies.
Re: Exa, a modern replacement for ls
#6so... a mix up of the following: which ls alias ls='ls --color=auto' /bin/ls tree -L 2 git diff --stat git status
Sometimes the Unix philosophy has to be taken with a grain of salt.
Re: Exa, a modern replacement for ls
#7so... a mix up of the following: which ls alias ls='ls --color=auto' /bin/ls tree -L 2 git diff --stat git status
Right but with more colors (e.g. you can get small files to have their file size be in green and large files have their filesize in yellow - the scale of color tells you how big a file is) and the summary from git-diff --stat is nicely fitted into a single, small column.
Certainly not life changing, but after using it for a while, I can tell you that every time I'm on a machine that doesn't have exa, I feel so frustrated ls doesn't give me everything exa has. I often end up downloading exa on any machine that doesn't have it
Re: Exa, a modern replacement for ls
#8Does it take into account the background color of my xterm so things do not become unreadable?
Re: Exa, a modern replacement for ls
#9What is the usefulness/learning_effort ratio of this tool?
Re: Exa, a modern replacement for ls
#10Is this intended as a full on ls replacement? As in, does it respect the envvars such as lscolors? Will it silently ignore -h, or will it die violently?
It doesn't support LS_COLORS, unfortunately.