eza-community

eza

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eza-community / eza

eza

A modern alternative to ls

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What it is

A modern alternative to ls

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Where it is used

No documented product use was verified in the last source check.

What people are saying

I love exa but that grid bug was bugging me - its fixed in the fork! See here: https://github.com/eza-community/eza

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Also in these discussions

lsd-rs/lsd · linked in 2 of the same discussions
sharkdp/bat · linked in 2 of the same discussions

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This week on Hacker News

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Observed mentions: 2023-09-07 10:34:11 UTC to 2026-05-11 13:17:00 UTC.

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Period	Start (UTC)	End (exclusive, UTC)	Mentions	Submissions	Comments
2023	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	6	1	5
2024	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	10	1	9
2025	2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	6	0	6
2026 (partial)	2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1

What Hacker News says

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theshrike79·Oct 20, 2025

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

In Bat v0.26.0

arccy·Oct 13, 2025

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

In Modern Linux tools

hannesfur·Sep 23, 2025

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

In Zoxide: A Better CD Command

CGamesPlay·Jun 18, 2025

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

In Show HN: Lstr – A modern, interactive tree command written in Rust

gchamonlive·May 7, 2025

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

In Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a database

evanwpm·Mar 9, 2025

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

In Rewriting essential Linux packages in Rust