exa

exa is a replacement for ls written in Rust.

You'll have to use the nightly, rather than Rust beta. Sorry about that.

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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
• --group-directories-first: list directories before other files
• --git: show git status (depends on libgit2, see below)
• -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
• -L, --level=(depth): maximum depth of recursion
• -m, --modified: display timestamp of most recent modification
• -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=(field): which timestamp to show for a file
• -T, --tree: recurse into subdirectories in a tree view
• -u, --accessed: display timestamp of last access for a file
• -U, --created: display timestamp of creation of a file
• -x, --across: sort multi-column view entries across
• -@, --extended: display extended attribute keys and sizes

You can sort by name, size, ext, inode, modified, created, accessed, 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 make install will compile exa and install it into /usr/local/bin.

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.