Exa, a modern replacement for ls

Re:Exa, a modern replacement for ls by Symbiote on Friday August 04, 2017 @02:27AM (#14926741)

I'll repeat this here:

  export TIME_STYLE=long-iso
  export BLOCK_SIZE="'1"

The first option gives ISO dates, the second the thousands separator. You need a locale for a thousands separator, en_GB here:

  $ ls -on i*
  -rw-rw-r-- 1 1001     1,335 2017-06-16 14:31 icon-shelters.svg
  -rw-r--r-- 1 1001 1,633,946 2016-11-07 14:50 insects.png
  -rw-r--r-- 1 1001 1,445,837 2016-11-18 10:32 ix

Block size: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/Bloc...

Time style: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/Form...

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Re:Exa, a modern replacement for ls by fnj on Friday August 04, 2017 @02:58AM (#14926875)

Thank you! I couldn't live without the alias I use for ls, which specifies BLOCKSIZE with the tick. Now I am going to add TIME_STYLE, which I didn't know about but I love already.

The rendering of time in any format other than ISO-8601 is a pet peeve of mine. It always baffles me why people do it.

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Re:Exa, a modern replacement for ls by masklinn on Friday August 04, 2017 @03:44AM (#14927059)

Sadly not supported by BSD ls.

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Re:Exa, a modern replacement for ls by fnj on Friday August 04, 2017 @06:08AM (#14927543)

True, but if you "pkg install gnuls" and set up an alias, you can get gnu ls transparently.

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