I learned you can edit .bashrc (in your home dir) and update the alias for ls to include what I like. It has saved me lots of keystrokes. Mine is ‘ls -lha’ in addition to whatever color coding stuff is there by default.
Aha. Well, I guess I’m not the target audience because I can’t be bothered to go through the installation steps. It’s not in the LMDE repository, but I wish it were!
I learned you can edit .bashrc (in your home dir) and update the alias for ls to include what I like. It has saved me lots of keystrokes. Mine is ‘ls -lha’ in addition to whatever color coding stuff is there by default.
A lot of distros include a .bashrc with common
lsaliases commented out, just waiting for you to activate them if you like.You might like
ezaeven more!You might like lsd even more than that!
Hmm, that’s not working for me. You mean use those as options? ‘ls -eza’?
No, it’s like an ls replacement: https://github.com/eza-community/eza
Aha. Well, I guess I’m not the target audience because I can’t be bothered to go through the installation steps. It’s not in the LMDE repository, but I wish it were!
No,
ezais one of those modern Rust replacement programs. It replacesls.There’s a whole bunch of cool modern replacements. Here’s a handy list: altbox.dev
I personally use
batandrgall the time, and find them much more suitable for everyday tasks.Even better than
rgisrga. Indeed, you have a fine list.The mobile site doesn’t have the list. I was so confused.
Ew, sorry. This list is similar and more accessible:
https://github.com/ibraheemdev/modern-unix