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.