exa VS lsd

that's exa instead of ls there, cbonsai, and dt's shell color scripts, pipes-rs

exa

I finally got tired of not having directories first on macOS, and - for me - something like exa <https://the.exa.website/> was overkill. So I dug into the source code, hunted down the missing BSD-licensed headers, figured out how to work around the APSL headers, and smoothed out the rough edges.

Very much a personal itch-scratching exercise and only a couple hours worth of work, but maybe it'll be useful for someone else.

Exa (alternative for ls)

exa: serve como alternativa ao “ls”; e

"exa" -- A modern replacement for "ls" with proper formatting, color highlighting, and git awareness.

You can also use exa with the --icons option

Both LSD and exa are replacements for the ls command. They both look gorgeous with nice colors and icons and have features like headers, sorting, tree views, and so on. Exa is a bit faster than LSD for tree views and can show the Git status of files and folders. I prefer exa due to the Git support and faster tree views. I have set up my ls alias to use exa by default. Both can be configured to show custom columns and sorting behaviors.

In fact ls -A don't work because is a alias to 'exa'.

I wanted to use (Nerd Font)[https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/] icons with (lsd)[https://github.com/Peltoche/lsd] but keep my preferred font for everything else in my Terminal. So I decided to follow the instructions in (this)[https://github.com/gabrielelana/awesome-terminal-fonts/issues/7#issuecomment-236417688] issue comment, however, as (the year old post)[https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/p88edj/macos_default_fallback_font_on_catalina_and_newer/] states, the mentioned file (/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Frameworks/CoreText.framework/Resources/DefaultFontFallbacks.plist) is gone.

sudo dpkg -i lsd_0.23.1_amd64.deb, get the .deb file from release page. Should work.

You can check out nnn then since it's as fast as typing ls. But if you want something without ncurses, then maybe lsd is better.

Both LSD and exa are replacements for the ls command. They both look gorgeous with nice colors and icons and have features like headers, sorting, tree views, and so on. Exa is a bit faster than LSD for tree views and can show the Git status of files and folders. I prefer exa due to the Git support and faster tree views. I have set up my ls alias to use exa by default. Both can be configured to show custom columns and sorting behaviors.

Prefer lsd because it can calculate folder sizes

Use gow, and WindTerm; and if you want an even better experience install lsd, fd, and lf all of which are downloadable via Chocolatey, the Windows package manager

lsd. It's a modern alternative to ls. It's similar to exa, but it also shows nerd font icons next to each listing. The latest release contains 2 bugfix PR's I recently submitted. One was to have it correctly give nonzero exit codes on certain failures, and the other fixed a zsh completion issue they introduced with the previous release. That's a big milestone for me because I don't normally work with low-level languages.

A new version that should fix this issue just got released: https://github.com/Peltoche/lsd/releases/tag/0.23.1