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| exa | coreutils | |
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| 54 | 48 | |
| 16,224 | 9,720 | |
| - | 5.9% | |
| 7.8 | 9.9 | |
| 4 days ago | 8 days ago | |
| Rust | Rust | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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exa
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Rich is a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal
bat especially was a revelation. I don't think I'll ever use cat again if I can help it. I recently found exa[1] which was a bit too colorful for my taste but very nice too
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Rustifying my terminal
exa
- Exa
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What are your favorite non-GUI/DE customizations?
Over time, I have replaced more and more the standard tools with alternative ones. Instead of find, I use fd and fzf, for example. Instead of grep I use ripgrep. Or exa instead of ls. And I use Mercurial instead of Git.
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Hacker News top posts: Dec 19, 2021
Exa - A Modern Replacement for ls\ (98 comments)
- exa · a modern replacement for ls
- Exa - A Modern Replacement for ls
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Exa · A Modern Replacement for ls
https://github.com/ogham/exa/issues/367#issuecomment-4285909...
ls taking seconds and exa taking 13 minutes :(
Their website says it's as fast as ls because they do things in parallel but it doesn't seem to actually be as fast as ls in small or large usage.
I'd also say 200ms -> 1.2 seconds is very noticable.
coreutils
- Spice up your old #Linux commands
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What's in a Rust binary?
I'm a uutils/coreutils contributor (just a few small contributions!) and I tried out a few of the suggestions proposed by the rest of this thread (cargo bloat, cargo tree), and was able to reduce my release binary size by half (to about 1.4M) before stripping the binary (to about 1M). See: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/2781
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Drop in replacement for Unix built-in tools?
Maybe this: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils
- Coreutils Rewritten in Rust - cool initiative
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Discussion Thread
GNU wackos having a normal one https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/1781
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Coreutils Rewritten in Rust
One fun recent development in 2021: https://sylvestre.ledru.info/blog/2021/03/09/debian-running-...
> tldr: Rust/coreutils ( https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/ ) is now available in Debian, good enough to boot a Debian with GNOME, install the top 1000 packages, build Firefox, the Linux Kernel and LLVM/Clang.
The comments complaining about the choice of license remind me of the time when a FSF licensing intern did the same, and demanded it be changed due to some false claim about it being a derivative work[1]. Let me remind everyone that there was probably a good reason for using a permissive license, and no-one has the right to demand changes based on their definition of freedom - unless they stepped up and contributed.
If it truly injures you, you can either make your own rewrite or, like the Muse Group, outright buy the rights to the software and do it yourself.
why MIT license ? that is bound to be turnoff for a lot of folks.
also, a minor nit: there are still a lot of work [1] that needs to be done, and imho, it is a bit premature to title this article as is presented here.
What are some alternatives?
lsd - The next gen ls command
fish-shell - The user-friendly command line shell.
bat - A cat(1) clone with wings.
fd - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
visidata - A terminal spreadsheet multitool for discovering and arranging data
starship - ☄🌌️ The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!
skim - Fuzzy Finder in rust!
peco - Simplistic interactive filtering tool
kawa - A macOS input source switcher with user-defined shortcuts.
zoxide - A smarter cd command. Supports all major shells.
tokei - Count your code, quickly.
fzf - :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder