Exa (Command-Line Utility)

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Short description: Command-line utility for listing files

exa
Exa example screenshot.png
Original author(s)Benjamin Sago
Initial releaseMay 22, 2014; 10 years ago (2014-05-22)
Written inRust
PlatformLinux, macOS
LicenseMIT

exa is a command-line utility for listing files. It is promoted as "a modern replacement for ls" with features not present in ls, such as showing git status.[1][2] exa is one of the first applications written in Rust to be included in Fedora,[3][1] openSUSE,[4] and Gentoo.[5]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Oxidizing Fedora: Try Rust and its applications today - Fedora Magazine". February 21, 2018. https://fedoramagazine.org/oxidizing-fedora-try-rust-applications-today/. Retrieved October 16, 2018. 
  2. "exa a modern replacement for ls written in rust for Linux/Unix". August 4, 2017. https://www.cyberciti.biz/open-source/command-line-hacks/exa-a-modern-replacement-for-ls-written-in-rust-for-linuxunix/. Retrieved December 16, 2018. 
  3. "Fedora Rawhide Begins Offering Packaged Rust Applications". November 27, 2017. https://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Fedora-Rust-Packages. Retrieved December 16, 2018. 
  4. "exa". https://software.opensuse.org/package/exa. Retrieved December 28, 2018. 
  5. "sys-apps/exa". December 1, 2018. https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/sys-apps/exa. Retrieved December 28, 2018. 

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