exa/README.md
David Celis 714b9c1fbe Add simple Makefile to build and install exa
This patch adds a Makefile that will build and install exa along with
its recently added manual page. This provides a little bit of a nicer
installation path while we wait for Cargo to, hopefully, provide its own
built-in installation method for packages that contain binaries.

Signed-off-by: David Celis <me@davidcel.is>
2015-02-24 10:48:39 -05:00

1.8 KiB

exa Build status

exa is a replacement for ls written in Rust.

Screenshot

Screenshot of exa

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, 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.