I just learned:
https://github.com/ogham/exa the ls
replacement has been replaced by https://github.com/eza-community/eza
the exa
repo says:
exa is unmaintained, use the fork eza instead.
(This repository isn’t archived because the only person with the rights to do so is unreachable).
For the curious, looks like the story, contributor deliberations and conversations are here: [Question] Is this project still being actively maintained? · Issue #1139 · ogham/exa
hope everyone involved is OK & on to other projects
both projects are MIT licensed and written in rust.
Good to hear. I’ve been on exa for a while now and would hate going back.
Sad to hear of the original author’s disappearance. Hopefully they’re ok!
Arch automatically replaced it ~2 weeks ago
Alpine made the switch the other day. Didn’t have to do anything except update. I like it when things work out like that, hope the original exa author is chillin somewhere enjoying themselves.
To my surprise this was already in the official Arch repos. I used
lsd
in the past and wonder how it compares toeza
.one thing
lsd
can do that is AFAIK unique amongstls
-type tools: report actual file size on directoriesworth having installed for this feature alone
Used
exa
on Windows despite the bugginess (there was a PR making it work on Windows that I’dcargo install
directly), and I’m glad to see it forked and in active development. These days I usenu
and itsls
command, but I would highly recommendexa
for people using more standard shells.