linuxPIPEpower OP , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

aside from the subject of the post: the ones I miss when it’s not available are git status/ignoring, icons, tree, excellent color coding.

Here I cloned the eza repo and made some random changes.

<span style="color:#323232;">eza --long -h --no-user --no-time --almost-all --git --sort</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">=</span><span style="color:#323232;">date --reverse --icons
</span>

https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/da20a584-30c5-4d4f-9c9b-98dce13b2756.png

Made some more changes and then combine git and tree, something I find is super helpful for overview:

<span style="color:#323232;">eza --long -h --no-user --no-time --git --sort</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">=</span><span style="color:#323232;">date --reverse --icons --tree --level</span><span style="font-weight:bold;color:#a71d5d;">=</span><span style="color:#323232;">2 --git-ignore --no-permissions --no-filesize
</span>

https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/faa9f734-3e34-40a5-9f38-7cdc5f92e673.png

(weird icons are my fault for not setting up fonts properly in the terminal.)

Colors all over the place are an innovation that has enabled me to use the terminal really at all. I truly struggle when I need to use b&w or less colorful environments. I will almost always install eza on any device even something that needs to be lean. It’s not just pretty and splashy but it helps me correctly comprehend the information.

I’d never want to get rid of ls and I don’t personally alias it to to eza because I always want to have unimpeded access to the standard tooling. But I appreciate having a few options to do the same task in slightly different ways. And it’s so nice to have all the options together in one application rather than needing a bunch of scripts and aliases and configurations. I don’t think it does anything that’s otherwise impossible but to get on with life it is helpful.