exa VS lc

Compare exa vs lc and see what are their differences.

lc

A post-modern, "multi-dimensional", configurable, abbreviating, extensible ls/file lister in Nim (by c-blake)
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exa lc
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3.2 8.7
8 days ago 2 months ago
Rust Nim
MIT License ISC License
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exa

Posts with mentions or reviews of exa. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-07.

lc

Posts with mentions or reviews of lc. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-07.
  • Exa Is Deprecated
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Sep 2023
    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.

    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Sep 2023
    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.

  • Ask HN: Why did Nim not catch-on like wild fire as Rust did?
    16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Jun 2023
    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.

  • Exa: An Alternative to Ls
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Oct 2021
    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.

    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Oct 2021
    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).

    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Oct 2021
    Does anybody have experience with `lc`? The description is quite intriguing.

    https://github.com/c-blake/lc

    c-blake/lc: A post-modern, "multi-dimensional", configurable, abbreviating, extensible ls/file lister in Nim

    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Oct 2021
    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?

When comparing exa and lc you can also consider the following projects:

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!