I didn’t know I needed it, but what I know is that I will download it.
This was posted a few days ago. It’s a great collection.
bat and rg I actually have already… but now you make me waste so much time fiddling with all these ;)
fdsaves me so much time. I actually understandfindbetter than I wish I did, andfdis just so, so much easier.The advantage of both rg and fd are that they use the Perl-compatible regex syntax that almost every contemporary programming language uses. There’s only one thing to learn.
That, and the use of
gitignoreand other heuristics to ignore many files by default.Plus, unlike
grep,findis just…awkward. The directories to search must be prior to any search arguments (and.is not the default, it must be specified explicitly), and using a search pattern is treated as one of many special cases requiring one of a variety of flags rather than the obvious default operation.It’s a powerful DSL, but…not a convenient one by any stretch of the imagination.
Don’t forget about lsd
Hmm 🤔 something new for me. I’m in love with exa. What’s wrong with that?
me too, apparently they added some features and fixes. i wonder why they did it on a fork instead of pushing it upstream.
oh that’s why: https://feddit.de/comment/2583070
I see. I suppose that exa is abandoned for two years or more and perhaps there’s no connection with maintainer. So then fork.
I’ve had
lsaliased toexafor a while. So it looks like eza is a fork of exa? The git feature looks interesting.Anyone tried it and has an argument as to why people should use it over ls?
‘Should’ is a pretty strong word, try it out if you want.
I mainly use it because it colorizes the output nicer than ls, but it also has git awareness if you need it.
I haven’t looked into
ezaat all, butlsalternatives always have a place on Windows.dirhas to be one of the worst flavors oflsstill used in the modern era.
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I’ve used exa before and it’s great software.What is the difference between exa and exz?
