exa

exa is a replacement for ls written in Rust.

Works on all recent Rust versions > 1.4.0.

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Options

exa's options are similar, but not exactly the same, as ls.

Filtering Options

-a, --all: show dot files
-d, --list-dirs: list directories as regular files
--group-directories-first: list directories before other files
-L, --level=(depth): maximum depth of recursion
-R, --recurse: recurse into subdirectories

View Options

-1, --oneline: display one entry per line
-r, --reverse: reverse sort order
-s, --sort=(field): field to sort by
-x, --across: sort multi-column view entries across
-T, --tree: recurse into subdirectories in a tree view

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

Long Format

-b, --binary: use binary (power of two) file sizes
-B, --bytes: list file sizes in bytes, without prefixes
-g, --group: show group as well as user
--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
-m, --modified: display timestamp of most recent modification
-S, --blocks: show number of file system blocks
-t, --time=(field): which timestamp to show for a file
-u, --accessed: display timestamp of last access for a file
-U, --created: display timestamp of creation of a file
-@, --extended: display extended attribute keys and sizes

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.

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