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A modern replacement for ‘ls’.

41 mentions on Hacker News by 38 people: 4 stories, 37 comments · first 2015-02-22 · latest 2025-05-07

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  1. WHY DO YOU PEOPLE DO THIS? STOP WITH THE NAME COLLISIONS ALREADY. https://github.com/ogham/exa
    comment by wormius · 2025-05-07 · in Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a database
  2. Not to be confused with exa: https://github.com/ogham/exa
    comment by orhmeh09 · 2025-05-06 · in Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a database
  3. …liability. On another note, the developers on exa did explicitly say the project was unmaintained: https://github.com/ogham/exa/commit/fb05c421ae98e076989eb6e8...
    comment by linkdd · 2024-07-22 · in Eza: A modern, maintained replacement for ls
  4. I think they are not referring to ls, but to exa [0], which is not maintained anymore. [0] https://github.com/ogham/exa
    comment by coffeeri · 2024-07-22 · in Eza: A modern, maintained replacement for ls
  5. ▲ 277
    Exa Is Deprecated
    story by f4n4tiX · 2023-09-07 · 233 comments
  6. …example, instead of ls, I use exa [1]. Or ripgrep [2] instead of grep. sd [3] instead of sed. [1]: https://github.com/ogham/exa [2]: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep [3]: https://github.com/chmln/sd
    comment by alwillis · 2023-06-28 · in macOS command-line tools you might not know about
  7. …changes and the programs can’t be used as drop in replacements. Some examples are - ls => exa ( https://github.com/ogham/exa ) - grep => ripgrep ( https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep ) - cat => bat ( https://github.com/sharkdp/bat ) -…
    comment by nindalf · 2023-03-02 · in Bsdutils: Alternative to GNU coreutils using software from FreeBSD
  8. …exa which are pretty good replacements for cat and ls, respectively. https://github.com/sharkdp/bat https://github.com/ogham/exa
    comment by plandis · 2022-05-20 · in A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to ‘find’
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    Exa is a modern replacement for ls
    story by tosh · 2022-02-16 · 2 comments
  10. …help it. I recently found exa[1] which was a bit too colorful for my taste but very nice too [1] https://github.com/ogham/exa
    comment by aniforprez · 2022-01-15 · in Rich: A Python library for rich text and formatting in the terminal
  11. That seems different than sorting by time? My minor exa gripe is described here: https://github.com/ogham/exa/issues/519 Lots of workarounds, even more available now, but I ended up switching to lsd and love it. I like the file type icons.
    comment by varenc · 2021-12-20 · in Exa - A Modern Replacement for ls
  12. There seem to be an issue reported about this (although when passing -l): https://github.com/ogham/exa/issues/141
    comment by Zitrax · 2021-12-20 · in Exa - A Modern Replacement for ls
  13. Yeah at first I thought maybe the git feature but in the demo they're not passing --git. See also: https://github.com/ogham/exa/issues/367#issuecomment-4285909... ls taking seconds and exa taking 13 minutes :( Their website says it's as…
    comment by esprehn · 2021-12-19 · in Exa - A Modern Replacement for ls
  14. …(and as a drop-in replacement for git diff) and exa for ls. https://github.com/dandavison/delta https://github.com/ogham/exa
    comment by kibwen · 2021-06-14 · in Ripgrep 13.0
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    Exa – A Modern Replacement for Ls
    story by ethanpil · 2021-03-19 · 0 comments
  16. …good colorization options. Some of my favorite colorized feature-rich alternatives: ls -> [exa]( https://github.com/ogham/exa ) cat -> [bat]( https://github.com/sharkdp/bat ) du -> [ncdu]( https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu ) diff -> [delta](…
    comment by IggleSniggle · 2020-07-26 · in Colorize Your CLI
  17. For anyone wondering, here's the bug: https://github.com/ogham/exa/issues/550
    comment by pas · 2020-05-03 · in Re: Integrating "safe" languages into OpenBSD? (2017)
  18. …All of them are pretty good https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty https://github.com/sharkdp/bat https://github.com/ogham/exa
    comment by AzzieElbab · 2020-05-03 · in Re: Integrating "safe" languages into OpenBSD? (2017)
  19. …normally publish their crates to crates.io and call it a day, see https://github.com/sharkdp/bat or https://github.com/ogham/exa
    comment by hazebooth · 2020-04-19 · in Ask HN: Where to publish Rust command-line tools for easy use?
  20. …https://github.com/sharkdp/bat https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazydocker https://github.com/ogham/exa https://github.com/docker/cli https://github.com/cli/cli
    comment by mxschumacher · 2020-02-15 · in To become a good C programmer (2011)
  21. …https://github.com/sharkdp/fd/ https://github.com/sharkdp/bat https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep https://github.com/ogham/exa
    comment by eerrt · 2020-01-09 · in Broot – A new way to see and navigate directory trees
  22. …more options [0]: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep [1]: https://github.com/sharkdp/bat [2]: https://github.com/ogham/exa I do not have any affiliation with them, I just use them a lot Edit: formatting
    comment by CiTyBear · 2019-07-17 · in A proactive approach to more secure code
  23. …ps://github.com/silvanocerza/dotfiles/blob/master/zsh/zsh... [1]: https://github.com/sharkdp/bat [2]: https://github.com/ogham/exa
    comment by alien1993 · 2019-07-17 · in Show HN: Turn your fzf into a live REPL
  24. …Smaller tools like ripgrep and exa both written in rust help speed up common terminal commands: https://github.com/ogham/exa
    comment by dmix · 2019-07-09 · in Cicada: A Bash-like Unix shell written in Rust
  25. …ls written in Rust. Interesting to compare. Still over 6,000 lines not including comments. [0] https://github.com/ogham/exa
    comment by michaelmior · 2019-07-02 · in Decoded: GNU Coreutils
  26. Why would I use this over exa? https://github.com/ogham/exa
    comment by sridca · 2019-05-21 · in Lsd: The next gen ls command
  27. I will stick with exa instead. https://github.com/ogham/exa
    comment by hermanradtke · 2019-05-21 · in Lsd: The next gen ls command
  28. exa does have a fork which does but exa's development seems to have paused. https://github.com/ogham/exa/pull/368
    comment by h1d · 2019-05-21 · in Lsd: The next gen ls command
  29. A comparison to exa[0] would be interesting as well [0] https://github.com/ogham/exa
    comment by kekebo · 2019-05-07 · in Performance of nnn vs. ls
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    A modern version of ‘ls’
    story by DarkManZero · 2018-12-29 · 0 comments
  31. …to patch your font to display them as they're text. (Search for nerdfont. Some are pre-patched.) https://github.com/ogham/exa/pull/368
    comment by h1d · 2018-08-31 · in CLI: Improved
  32. …a regex pattern https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep - exa: Replacement for 'ls' written in Rust https://github.com/ogham/exa - bat: A 'cat' replacement. I recommend following the customizations. https://github.com/sharkdp/bat Written in…
    comment by zodiac · 2018-05-07 · in Ask HN: What are your favorite terminal programs?
  33. …a regex pattern https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep - exa: Replacement for 'ls' written in Rust https://github.com/ogham/exa - bat: A 'cat' replacement. I recommend following the customizations. https://github.com/sharkdp/bat Written in…
    comment by Dowwie · 2018-05-07 · in Ask HN: What are your favorite terminal programs?
  34. …--dirsfirst -ChFL 3" alias l4="tree --dirsfirst -ChFL 4" alias l5="tree --dirsfirst -ChFL 5" ( or https://github.com/ogham/exa in tree mode )
    comment by floatboth · 2018-03-30 · in Sl: a mirror version of ls
  35. the output is missing the git modification flags issue: https://github.com/ogham/exa/issues/183
    comment by Dowwie · 2017-08-04 · in Exa, a modern replacement for ls
  36. …to colour file sizes based on how big they are. The person who submitted the feature request ( https://github.com/ogham/exa/issues/65 ) used k as a direct example.
    comment by cytzol · 2017-08-04 · in Exa, a modern replacement for ls
  37. …exa uses libgit2 which must be requiring it somehow. The GitHub issue offers a fix for Ubuntu: https://github.com/ogham/exa/issues/194
    comment by cytzol · 2017-08-03 · in Exa, a modern replacement for ls
  38. A bug was filed a week ago https://github.com/ogham/exa/issues/194
    comment by steveklabnik · 2017-08-03 · in Exa, a modern replacement for ls
  39. …theme). From the doc, it doesn't appear that colors are customizable, yet. Pull request? :) [1] https://github.com/ogham/exa
    comment by AceJohnny2 · 2017-08-03 · in Exa, a modern replacement for ls
  40. It's exa[1] :) [1] https://github.com/ogham/exa
    comment by gmaster1440 · 2015-03-09 · in Show HN: Essential React, a minimal skeleton for building React apps using ES6
  41. …favourite package management system (or pass --no-default-features to the next step) Run git clone https://github.com/ogham/exa.git to download the latest version of exa. Run cargo build in the new directory to compile exa. Move the…
    comment by fiatjaf · 2015-02-22 · in Show HN: Exa, a replacement for ls written in Rust