exa VS visidata

Even though ls is a good-old standby, I prefer the aliases for ll and la that rely on exa. These aliases default to showing important information like git status and can even prevent me from needing to launch subsequent, exploratory commands.

https://github.com/ogham/exa already exists. Haven't looked too closely at feature differences though.

exa is installed and acting as replacement for good old ls ... https://the.exa.website/

I've used a program called exa. (You can get it from cargo.) To get it to replace the "ls" command, I simply created an alias to "ls" command in my .zshrc file.

This page doesn’t actually list any features or explain why you should use exa instead of ls. The homepage [0] is more useful in this regard.

0: https://the.exa.website/

Tools that make my life easier would be fzf, fd, exa, micro, ripgrep, bat etc.

I recently came across exa and only a few months prior learnt about micro (and have switched from nano).

Exa

I found a directory that seems to control output for exa, but I didn't dig too much further than that: https://github.com/ogham/exa/tree/master/src/output

I love using https://github.com/ogham/exa

sounds similar to visidata

I'm sorry, it seems I was wrong. ods seems to not be supported. [Here] is a list of supported formats; I was surprised to learn ods files were not in this list. I also found [this issue thread](https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/issues/473) on the github repo, where it looks like there is some progress, but it also seems stagnated. If you're interested, you could bump that issue thread (and perhaps ask why it is closed).

Also see visidata.org which has links to lots more info.

On any cli post about csv files, I feel obliged to mention https://visidata.org, which has been my mainstay cli data tool for a few years now.

Really cool, I’m a big user of SQLite. Reminds me of visidata but for SQLite: https://github.com/saulpw/visidata

visidata: csv manipulation - by far the best of the best