exa VS lsd

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

[1] https://github.com/ogham/exa

exa

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.

Exa - A Modern Replacement for ls\ (98 comments)

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.

https://github.com/Peltoche/lsd is even better than exa. lsd has icons! The only thing missing compared to exa is git integration, but that tends to slow down the command, so I think it is actually an improvement.

A lot of unix-y tools have been rewritten in rust, where the usefulness comes from it being faster or having more features. Examples: bat, cw, lsd, ripgrep, diskonaut, gping. Maybe you could find an interesting program to rewrite?

lsd (a better ls)

I've been using lsd[0] as my ls replacement for a while. I like that it has a config file for defaults, so I don't have to change a bunch of aliases when setting up a new system.

0: https://github.com/Peltoche/lsd

sounds like youre using a tweaked ls like lsd, its most likely not part of the filename.

Is there any way to alter bash completion settings in case of directory listing, so that it uses, say, lsd utility to display colored names with icons? For example, you are in a directory, which contains `dir1`, `dir2`, ..., `dir10`, start typing `dir`, press tab and get a colored prompt with icons from lsd.

Because I'm on LSD right now.