exa

exa is unmaintained, use the fork eza instead. (This repository isn’t archived because the only person with the rights to do so is unreachable). exa exa is a modern replacement for ls. README Sections: Options — Installation — Development exa is a modern replacement for the venerable file-listing command-line program ls that ships with Unix and Linux operating systems, giving it more features and better defaults. It uses colours to distinguish file types and metadata. It knows about symlinks, extended attributes, and Git. And it’s small, fast, and just one single binary. By deliberately making some decisions differently, exa attempts to be a more featureful, more user-friendly version of ls. For more information, see exa’s website. Command-line options exa’s options are almost, but not quite, entirely unlike ls’s. Display options -1, --oneline: display one entry per line -G, --grid: display entries as a grid (default) -l, --long: display extended details and attributes -R, --recurse: recurse into directories -T, --tree: recurse into directories as a tree -x, --across: sort the grid across, rather than downwards -F, --classify: display type indicator by file names --colo[u]r: when to use terminal colours --colo[u]r-scale: highlight levels of file sizes distinctly --icons: display icons --no-icons: don't display icons (always overrides --icons) Filtering options -a, --all: show hidden and 'dot' files -d, --list-dirs: list directories like regular files -L, --level=(depth): limit the depth of recursion -r, --reverse: reverse the sort order -s, --sort=(field): which field to sort by --group-directories-first: list directories before other files -D, --only-dirs: list only directories --git-ignore: ignore files mentioned in .gitignore -I, --ignore-glob=(globs): glob patterns (pipe-separated) of files to ignore Pass the --all option twice to also show the . and .. directories. Long view options These options are available when running with --long (-l): -b, --binary: list file sizes with binary prefixes -B, --bytes: list file sizes in bytes, without any prefixes -g, --group: list each file’s group -h, --header: add a header row to each column -H, --links: list each file’s number of hard links -i, --inode: list each file’s inode number -m, --modified: use the modified timestamp field -S, --blocks: list each file’s number of file system blocks -t, --time=(field): which timestamp field to use -u, --accessed: use the accessed timestamp field -U, --created: use the created timestamp field -@, --extended: list each file’s extended attributes and sizes --changed: use the changed timestamp field --git: list each file’s Git status, if tracked or ignored --time-style: how to format timestamps --no-permissions: suppress the permissions field --octal-permissions: list each file's permission in octal format --no-filesize: suppress the filesize field --no-user: suppress the user field --no-time: suppress the time field Some of the options accept parameters: Valid --color options are always, automatic, and never. Valid sort fields are accessed, changed, created, extension, Extension, inode, modified, name, Name, size, type, and none. Fields starting with a capital letter sort uppercase before lowercase. The modified field has the aliases date, time, and newest, while its reverse has the aliases age and oldest. Valid time fields are modified, changed, accessed, and created. Valid time styles are default, iso, long-iso, and full-iso. Installation exa is available for macOS and Linux. More information on how to install exa is available on the Installation page. Alpine Linux On Alpine Linux, enable community repository and install the exa package. apk add exa Arch Linux On Arch, install the exa package. pacman -S exa Android / Termux On Android / Termux, install the exa package. pkg install exa Debian On Debian, install the exa package. apt install exa Fedora On Fedora, install the exa package. dnf install exa Gentoo On Gentoo, install the sys-apps/exa package. emerge sys-apps/exa Homebrew If you’re using Homebrew on macOS, install the exa formula. brew install exa MacPorts If you're using MacPorts on macOS, install the exa port. port install exa Nix On nixOS, install the exa package. nix-env -i exa openSUSE On openSUSE, install the exa package. zypper install exa Ubuntu On Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla) and later, install the exa package. sudo apt install exa Void Linux On Void Linux, install the exa package. xbps-install -S exa Manual installation from GitHub Compiled binary versions of exa are uploaded to GitHub when a release is made. You can install exa manually by downloading a release, extracting it, and copying the binary to a directory in your $PATH, such as /usr/local/bin. For more information, see the Manual Installation page. Cargo If you already have a Rust environment set up, you can use the cargo install command: cargo install exa Cargo will build the exa binary and place it in $HOME/.cargo. To build without Git support, run cargo install --no-default-features exa is also available, if the requisite dependencies are not installed. Development exa is written in Rust. You will need rustc version 1.66.1 or higher. The recommended way to install Rust for development is from the official download page, using rustup. Once Rust is installed, you can compile exa with Cargo: cargo build cargo test The just command runner can be used to run some helpful development commands, in a manner similar to make. Run just --list to get an overview of what’s available. If you are compiling a copy for yourself, be sure to run cargo build --release or just build-release to benefit from release-mode optimisations. Copy the resulting binary, which will be in the target/release directory, into a folder in your $PATH. /usr/local/bin is usually a good choice. To compile and install the manual pages, you will need pandoc. The just man command will compile the Markdown into