exa vs hexyl

exa

A modern replacement for ‘ls’. (by skyline75489)

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hexyl

A command-line hex viewer (by sharkdp)

Command-line Tool binary-data hexadecimal Rust

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exa		hexyl
	Project
1	Mentions	16
3	Stars	8,813
-	Growth	-
2.0	Activity	7.4
about 1 year ago	Latest Commit	2 months ago
Rust	Language	Rust
MIT License	License	Apache License 2.0

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

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 2021-08-05.

Your favorite Rust CLI utility? I have my top 10 below.
24 projects | /r/rust | 5 Aug 2021

This is the one I've been on and it seems to be working fine for me so far.

hexyl

Posts with mentions or reviews of hexyl. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-16.

hexyl: A command-line hex viewer
1 project | /r/tty0 | 16 Jun 2023
Hexyl: A command-line hex viewer with colorized output
1 project | /r/patient_hackernews | 16 Jun 2023

1 project | /r/hackernews | 16 Jun 2023

1 project | /r/hypeurls | 16 Jun 2023
Hexyl: A command-line hex viewer
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Jun 2023
hexyl release 0.11.0 - a colored command-line hex viewer
1 project | /r/rust | 5 Dec 2022
good hex view software?
2 projects | /r/embedded | 21 Oct 2022

A simple and lightweight command-line hex viewer:Hexyl
What is yay situation?
17 projects | /r/archlinux | 29 Aug 2022

hexyl ["hexyl" in community repo] - a fancier hexdump
There is framework for everything.
107 projects | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 4 Aug 2022
A list of new(ish) command line tools – Julia Evans
56 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Apr 2022

No such list is complete without hexyl!
https://github.com/sharkdp/hexyl

What are some alternatives?

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

nushell - A new type of shell

bat - A cat(1) clone with wings.

grex - A command-line tool and Rust library with Python bindings for generating regular expressions from user-provided test cases

walkdir - Rust library for walking directories recursively.

zenith - Zenith - sort of like top or htop but with zoom-able charts, CPU, GPU, network, and disk usage

tools

parallel-disk-usage - Highly parallelized, blazing fast directory tree analyzer

tiempo

awesome-cli-rust

vivid - A themeable LS_COLORS generator with a rich filetype datebase

Voila - Voila is a domain-specific language launched through CLI tool for operating with files and directories in massive amounts in a fast & reliable way.

huxdemp - A better hexdump