Eza: A modern, maintained replacement for ls

Re:Eza: A modern, maintained replacement for ls by nine_k on Monday July 22, 2024 @09:43AM (#41034287)

For me, there are two principal cases of sorting in `ls` output: alphabetical when I'm trying to find something I don't know/ remember exactly, and mtime-based when I want to see the latest (or oldest) in a group of related files. I don't see how it could work with one shortcut.

Another thing is `ls -l` that's important when I need to understand file sizes and especially how symlinks are set up. Yet another is `ls -ld` which explains details about directories.

All these cases could be made more ergonomic, and maybe partly merged. But I don't see how I could compress them into one type of output that fits all purposes.

(My current fancy version of `ls` is `lsd`, but I still use the built-in `ls` a lot.)

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Re:Eza: A modern, maintained replacement for ls by whartung on Monday July 22, 2024 @12:12PM (#41036088)

To this end I made a simple script, `latest`, which is, essentially, `ls -lt $@ | head`.

So, `latest *.log`, etc.

Other than that, simple autocomplete does a lot of my ls work for me.

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Re:Eza: A modern, maintained replacement for ls by jmholla on Monday July 22, 2024 @12:29PM (#41036294)

I know you're showing a rough example, but others might want to throw a `-d` in there so that folders don't get expanded. And put `$@` in quotations so spaced file names don't get interpreted as separate arguments.

i.e.:

    ls -ltd "$@" | head

edit: `-d` may be a bad choice. It also results in directories being listed first on my system, even with `-t` passed.

edit 2: That was an alias I had setup. Carry on with the `-d`.

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Re:Eza: A modern, maintained replacement for ls by zokier on Monday July 22, 2024 @01:43PM (#41037189)

    find -type f -printf '%M@ %p\0' | sort -zn | tail -z | sed -z 's/^[0-9.]* //' | ...

Ugh.. so unixy

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