Exa as a replacement for ls command in Linux ?

Faust · Post by **Faust** » Fri Aug 04, 2017 2:57 am

The colored display makes for much clearer reading and includes permissions and ownership for each file .
https://the.exa.website/

To quote from that site :-
" exa can display a file’s extended attributes, as well as standard filesystem information such as the inode,
the number of blocks, and a file’s various dates and times."

https://github.com/ogham/exa

Both links have screenshots so I didn't include them here .

Post by **xenopeek** » Fri Aug 04, 2017 5:16 am

I was about to thank you for the nice suggestion ... but I already have it installed

I should probably set an alias because I forget I have exa as ls alternative.

kc1di · Post by **kc1di** » Fri Aug 04, 2017 6:13 am

Sound interesting but has anyone done a .deb package for it?

syg00 · Post by **syg00** » Fri Aug 04, 2017 6:46 am

If your OS isn’t listed here, then you’ll have to download and install the binary yourself.
Such is life.

I'm not a huge fan of colours in a terminal, but that's just me.

Faust · Post by **Faust** » Fri Aug 04, 2017 7:42 am

xenopeek wrote:I was about to thank you for the nice suggestion ... but I already have it installed I should probably set an alias because I forget I have exa as ls alternative.

Maybe a short install guide would be a good idea , for other folk reading here ?
Since it's not available in Software Manager , Synaptic Packages or PPAs

@kc1di
As far as I can see , it's not available as a .deb package

PS - can anyone point me at how to do " multi-quote " in this forum ?

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