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
• -s, --sort=(field): field to sort by
• -S, --blocks: show number of file system blocks
• -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.