exa

exa is a replacement for ls written in Rust.

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Options

• -1, --oneline: display one entry per line
• -a, --all: show dot files
• -b, --binary: use binary (power of two) file sizes
• -B, --bytes: list file sizes in bytes, without prefixes
• -d, --list-dirs: list directories as regular files
• -g, --group: show group as well as user
• -h, --header: show a header row
• -H, --links: show number of hard links column
• -i, --inode: show inode number column
• -l, --long: display extended details and attributes
• -r, --reverse: reverse sort order
• -R, --recurse: recurse into subdirectories
• -s, --sort=(field): field to sort by
• -S, --blocks: show number of file system blocks
• -t, --time: which timestamp to show for a file
• -T, --tree: recurse into subdirectories in a tree view
• -x, --across: sort multi-column view entries across

You can sort by name, size, ext, inode, or none.

Installation

exa is written in Rust. You'll have to use the nightly -- I try to keep it up to date with the latest version when possible. Once you have it set up, a simple cargo build will pull in all the dependencies and compile exa.

exa depends on libgit2 for certain features. If you're unable to compile libgit2, you can opt out of Git support by passing --no-default-features to Cargo.