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exa
- Exa Is Deprecated
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macOS Command-Line Tools You Might Not Know About
Some of us don't want all of GNU's utilities; just on an as-needed basis. They're not as needed as they once were.
Many of these utilities have been rewritten in Rust and have more modern features.
For example, instead of ls, I use exa [1]. Or ripgrep [2] instead of grep.
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List of apps I use every day - Version 2023
fish: A very fast shell with various customization options to streamline daily commands. I discovered it through this post by @caarlos0, where he provides more details about performance and the differences between fish and zsh. Additionally, I use some CLI utilities like delta, exa, and ripgrep. Here's my dotfiles for fish.
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Ls with icons
Hi! I use this: https://the.exa.website, and the package to this: https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/exa/
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Everything I Installed on My New Mac
I still use exa for listing files in the terminal. It's a modern replacement for ls with a lot of useful features. With icons, colors, and git integration, it makes listing files much nicer.
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Top Productivity CLI Tools I Use on Linux
5. Exa
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Use colorls and font-awesome to add colors and icons to your ls output
There's also exa
- ls is bloat
- Quick File Sorter: An open source tool for sorting your files on Linux
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What kind of applications are missing from the Linux ecosystem?
Yeah, I see what you mean, perhaps exa could implement this, in case they don't already.
lc
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Exa Is Deprecated
https://github.com/c-blake/lc might interest some.
The screenshots should probably show underlined hard-links or other examples of "multi-file-attribute" -to- "multi-text-attribute" mapping. That kind of multi-ness seems generally neglected in this report generation space.
This kind of thing should probably be generalized so that any new parameter can be seamlessly woven into your `ls-like` reports.
https://github.com/c-blake/lc/blob/master/extensions/fe1 does `du`, but you could use `ffprobe` to do the run-time in hours:minutes:seconds for media files (or maybe 0sec for non-media) or numerous other things.
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Ask HN: Why did Nim not catch-on like wild fire as Rust did?
I don't know about all your other questions, but the https://github.com/c-blake/cligen CLI framework seems much lower effort / ceremony than even Rust's `argh` and is just about as old as `clap` (both started 8 years ago in 2015).
There are over 50 CLI utilities at https://github.com/c-blake/bu, many of which do something novel rather than just "re-doing ls/find/cat with a twist". While they are really more an "ls/ps construction toolkits" with some default configs to get people going, I think https://github.com/c-blake/lc and https://github.com/c-blake/procs are nicer than Rust alternatives. I mention these since you seem interested in such tools.
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Exa: An Alternative to Ls
Actually, I did at first look into this kind of a modification of GNU ls, but its internal concepts of how to classify files is just not amenable to generalization along the lines of https://github.com/c-blake/lc . Basically, the patch would be to thoroughly overhaul guts of the command and libraries it uses and be so unclean that starting from scratch is better, even if you wanted to "stay in C".
It's not like the patch would be installed 100% of the time anyway, and shell aliases can paper over divergent installations. So, it's 100% fine if none of these features matter to you - to each his own indeed - but I thought your point deserved a reply.
https://github.com/c-blake/lc can do that and more; Indeed you can group "dot directories" differently than "non-dot directories". When I sat down to write `lc` I went through all of exas issues and features and included as much as I felt reasonable.
I never liked the graphical tree mode, though. I prefer packing as much information as possible into small real estate (like cell phone terminal screens).
Does anybody have experience with `lc`? The description is quite intriguing.
c-blake/lc: A post-modern, "multi-dimensional", configurable, abbreviating, extensible ls/file lister in Nim
I put some thought into that naming https://github.com/c-blake/lc which I think is basically uniformly more capable than exa.
What are some alternatives?
lsd - The next gen ls command
colorls - A Ruby gem that beautifies the terminal's ls command, with color and font-awesome icons. :tada:
fish-shell - The user-friendly command line shell.
fd - A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'
coreutils - Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils
bat - A cat(1) clone with wings.
fzf - :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder
iTerm2 - iTerm2 is a terminal emulator for Mac OS X that does amazing things.
visidata - A terminal spreadsheet multitool for discovering and arranging data
starship - ☄🌌️ The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!
zoxide - A smarter cd command. Supports all major shells.
skim - Fuzzy Finder in rust!