I didn’t know I needed it, but what I know is that I will download it.
This was posted a few days ago. It’s a great collection.
bat and rg I actually have already… but now you make me waste so much time fiddling with all these ;)
fdsaves me so much time. I actually understandfindbetter than I wish I did, andfdis just so, so much easier.The advantage of both rg and fd are that they use the Perl-compatible regex syntax that almost every contemporary programming language uses. There’s only one thing to learn.
That, and the use of
gitignoreand other heuristics to ignore many files by default.Plus, unlike
grep,findis just…awkward. The directories to search must be prior to any search arguments (and.is not the default, it must be specified explicitly), and using a search pattern is treated as one of many special cases requiring one of a variety of flags rather than the obvious default operation.It’s a powerful DSL, but…not a convenient one by any stretch of the imagination.
Don’t forget about lsd
I’ve had
lsaliased toexafor a while. So it looks like eza is a fork of exa? The git feature looks interesting.The owner of
exahasn’t been active for close to 2 years and the project isn’t very actively maintained.ezais a community maintained fork. Context: https://github.com/ogham/exa/issues/1139#issuecomment-1656702098From
eza’s readme:eza features not in exa (non-exhaustive):
- Fixes “The Grid Bug” introduced in exa 2021.
- Hyperlink support.
- Selinux context output.
- Git repo status output.
- Human readable relative dates.
- Several security fixes (see dependabot)
- Many smaller bug fixes/changes!
exa has a terrible bug: if you set TZ environment variable to ‘:/path/to’, you will get ‘Unable to determine time zone: No such file or directory (os error 2)’. Does eza fix it?
Hmm 🤔 something new for me. I’m in love with exa. What’s wrong with that?
me too, apparently they added some features and fixes. i wonder why they did it on a fork instead of pushing it upstream.
I see. I suppose that exa is abandoned for two years or more and perhaps there’s no connection with maintainer. So then fork.
oh that’s why: https://feddit.de/comment/2583070
I’ve been using exa for a while and am a big fan. I’ll have to give eza a go
What’s wrong with
ls?Absolutely nothing… but for some reason I find it interesting when people rewrite things that I didn’t know needed rewrites. Sometimes these projects are doing someting really interesting. Grep is one such example, noone was saying that grep needed a replacement. In fact, it was used as a benchmark for regex (which is how rg started, to compare rust regex against grep), then someone creates rg that outperforms grep and is much nicer to use. That is also why I keep an eye on GitOxide, since nobody ever accused git of being slow, yet there are someone rewriting git with amazing performance improvements.
From eza’s readme, on why it’s better than ls:
It uses colours to distinguish file types and metadata. It knows about symlinks, extended attributes, and Git
GNU
lshas those features too (except knowing about Git). I’d be surprised if BSD ls doesn’t at least have color support.…not that I’m not going to check out
ezaand probably switch to it! But it’s often worth knowing what features the GNU/BSD coreutils do or do not support…especially when comparing other tools against them.exa(which OP’s readme saysezais built on) supports creation times. Actual creation time (the “Birth” line instatoutput), notctime.
It’s not cool. :)
Kind of nice actually. I have been using exa as a replacement for ls (also in Rust) but I like the tree like view here of files.
I’ve used exa before and it’s great software.What is the difference between exa and exz?
I use
exabut I don’t remember whyAnyone tried it and has an argument as to why people should use it over ls?
I haven’t looked into
ezaat all, butlsalternatives always have a place on Windows.dirhas to be one of the worst flavors oflsstill used in the modern era.‘Should’ is a pretty strong word, try it out if you want.
I mainly use it because it colorizes the output nicer than ls, but it also has git awareness if you need it.
I’ve aliased ls as exa --icons
I like to see icons
I’ve been using erdtree instead of ls for quite some time, and have no complaints at all
