Eza: A modern, maintained replacement for ls

Re:Eza: A modern, maintained replacement for ls by tmountain on Monday July 22, 2024 @08:50AM (#41033785)

Typing eza is a pretty horrible three character combination on a qwerty keyboard. One advantage of ls is it’s a lightning fast set of key strokes. I guess you can alias, but that’s kind of weird (compatibility, etc).

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Re:Eza: A modern, maintained replacement for ls by F3nd0 on Monday July 22, 2024 @10:31AM (#41034855)

As a Dvorak user, ‘eza’ seems like an improvement! (‘ls’ on a Dvorak layout is ‘p-’ on QWERTY; both keys on the right little finger.)

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Re:Eza: A modern, maintained replacement for ls by cafkafk on Monday July 22, 2024 @10:18AM (#41034697)

I was a former exa user, and the z is next to x on my keyboard, wasn't a huge hassle for me

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Re:Eza: A modern, maintained replacement for ls by acupofnope on Monday July 22, 2024 @08:54AM (#41033818)

Can you elaborate on why aliasing is kind of weird?

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Re:Eza: A modern, maintained replacement for ls by jen20 on Monday July 22, 2024 @09:42AM (#41034273)

I’ve had eza (and formally exa) aliased as ls, ll and lll since around 2015 and never hit a compatibility issue.

I also have sl installed to encourage accuracy when running it…

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Re:Eza: A modern, maintained replacement for ls by qorrect on Monday July 22, 2024 @01:33PM (#41037056)

What is 'sl' ?

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Re:Eza: A modern, maintained replacement for ls by L3viathan on Monday July 22, 2024 @01:39PM (#41037129)

Steam Locomotive, an annoying little ASCII art film to punish you for typos. Funny exactly once.

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Re:Eza: A modern, maintained replacement for ls by FuckButtons on Monday July 22, 2024 @12:34PM (#41036364)

You can alias it to whatever you want though.

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Re:Eza: A modern, maintained replacement for ls by DSMan195276 on Monday July 22, 2024 @02:58PM (#41038348)

You can, but that's a pain to set up and maintain everywhere. I avoid using aliases for that reason, it just makes me annoyed when I ssh into a machine and it's not there.

I'm not sure the meaning behind the name, but maybe they should have picked `eya` instead, that's nice and satisfying rather than the double pinky move :D

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Re:Eza: A modern, maintained replacement for ls by glandium on Monday July 22, 2024 @05:45PM (#41040155)

This is where an azerty keyboard shines.

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Re:Eza: A modern, maintained replacement for ls by elendee on Monday July 22, 2024 @11:37PM (#41042293)

this was my first reaction too

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Re:Eza: A modern, maintained replacement for ls by redxtech on Tuesday July 23, 2024 @12:46AM (#41042574)

`command -v eza >/dev/null && alias ls="eza"`

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