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eza [1] is a step in that direction. It lacks the interactivity, however. [1]: github.com/eza-community/eza

Along with bat, these are my main ones that I install always: fd, a better find: https://github.com/sharkdp/fd ripgrep (rg) a modern grep: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep eza for ls replacement: https://github.com/eza-community/eza duf is a cleaner df: https://github.com/muesli/duf dust for du: https://github.com/bootandy/dust Also fish + starship + yazi + helix, all of which mostly work perfectly with the defaults

like good open source, it's now forked by a community instead of having only a single maintainer eza: https://github.com/eza-community/eza

I also like eza (https://github.com/eza-community/eza) which is a modern ls. Fish is the biggest game changer though.

Likely needs features tuned. I compared Eza, similarly in Rust, and it's 1.6 MiB compiled. Looking at the Cargo.toml, it includes git2 with default-features = false. https://github.com/eza-community/eza/blob/main/Cargo.toml

It's now https://github.com/eza-community/eza as from the readme

I also really like: https://github.com/eza-community/eza (modern ls replacement) https://github.com/BurntSushi/erd (modern tree replacement) https://github.com/sharkdp/bat (modern cat(1) replacement) my .zshrc for every system now uses these as drop in replacements

There seems to be a lot of projects that is now competing to replace ls (for people preferences) For reference, those are the ones I am familiar with. They are somehow active in contrast to things like exa which is not maintained anymore. eza: (https://github.com/eza-community/eza) lsd: (https://github.com/Peltoche/lsd) colorls: (https://github.com/athityakumar/colorls) g: (https://github.com/Equationzhao/g) ls++: (https://github.com/trapd00r/LS_COLORS) logo-ls: (https://github.com/canta2899/logo-ls) - this is forked because main development stopped 4 years ago. Any more? Personally I prefer eza and wrote a zsh plugin that is basically aliases that matches what I have from my muscle memory.

exa is abandoned. There is now a maintained fork called eza: https://github.com/eza-community/eza

Is this in any way better than eza? https://github.com/eza-community/eza

exa is unmaintained, you can use the active fork eza instead [1]. [1] https://github.com/eza-community/eza

Looks nice! I think it would be cool to know the differences between Facad, lsd, and eza (https://github.com/lsd-rs/lsd and https://github.com/eza-community/eza) aka "why do I want to try Facad rather than alternatives". No offense meant, but the latter two already exist for a while, available in most distros and seem to do at least approximately the same thing.

Exa has been discontinued, probably worth switching to eza. https://github.com/eza-community/eza

Well, eza certainly seems faster on my micro-benchmark as well, though in general I never have any performance issues with these tools. Btw, ls beats them both easily (in my single-directory test). So features would be my main criteria, I guess. At least eza doesn't have that annoying bug I linked :). Short comparison: - Eza doesn't have the lsd's piping bug - Eza has more different output from ls than I would like (by default) - Both have git support - Eza --hyperlink doesn't have "auto" mode so if I alias ls to it, ls | sed hacks will likely behave unexpectedly if I enable it: https://github.com/eza-community/eza/issues/703 and this also seems like an instance of it: https://github.com/eza-community/eza/issues/693 - Eza is slower to write than lsd :) - Eza has more options to change its behaviour than lsd Overall I think the hyperlink i