{"id":11387,"date":"2020-11-25T17:51:32","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T16:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/?p=11387"},"modified":"2020-11-25T17:51:33","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T16:51:33","slug":"exa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/2020\/11\/25\/exa\/","title":{"rendered":"Unix \u2026: &#8220;exa&#8221; \u2013 a modern replacement for &#8220;ls&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/the.exa.website\/\">https:\/\/the.exa.website\/<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Exa_(command-line_utility)\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Exa_(command-line_utility)<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">pros:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>\u2026 (lots, that&#8217;s why I started installing and using it all around me)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">cons:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>I can easily ignore <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">backup files<\/span> ending in a ~ (AKA &#8220;tilde&#8221;), but if I <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">do<\/span> want to see them, that&#8217;s difficult \u2013 &#8220;<kbd>ls --ignore-backups<\/kbd>&#8221; ignores backup files, if run on a directory, but it shows them, when I list them on the command line \u2013 that&#8217;s what I got rather used to<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/the.exa.website\/ https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Exa_(command-line_utility) pros: \u2026 (lots, that&#8217;s why I started installing and using it all around me) cons: I can easily ignore backup files ending in a ~ (AKA &#8220;tilde&#8221;), but if I do want to see them, that&#8217;s difficult \u2013 &#8220;ls &#8211;ignore-backups&#8221; ignores backup files, if run on a directory, but it shows them, when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[673],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unix_utilities"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/saO0kP-exa","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11387"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11390,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11387\/revisions\/11390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}