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eza is a modern, maintained replacement for the venerable file-listing command-line program ls that ships with Unix and Linux operating systems, giving it more features and better defaults.
It uses colours to distinguish file types and metadata.
It knows about symlinks, extended attributes, and Git.
And it’s small, fast, and just one single binary.
By deliberately making some decisions differently, eza attempts to be a more featureful, more user-friendly version of ls.
eza features not in exa (non-exhaustive):
bright terminal colours.If you already have Nix setup with flake support, you can try out eza with the nix run command:
nix run github:eza-community/eza
Nix will build eza and run it.
If you want to pass arguments this way, use e.g. nix run github:eza-community/eza -- -ol.
eza is available for Windows, macOS and Linux.
If you already have a Rust environment set up, you can use the cargo install command:
cargo install eza
Cargo will build the eza binary and place it in $HOME/.local/share/cargo/bin/eza.
If you already have a Rust environment set up, you can use the cargo install command in your local clone of the repo:
git clone https://github.com/eza-community/eza.git
cd eza
cargo install --path .
Cargo will build the eza binary and place it in $HOME/.cargo.
Eza is available in the [extra] repository of Arch Linux.
bash
pacman -S eza
Eza is available from deb.gierens.de. The GPG public key is in this repo under deb.asc.
To install eza from this repo use:
bash
wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eza-community/eza/main/deb.asc | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/gierens.asc
echo "deb http://deb.gierens.de stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gierens.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y eza
Note: on some systems like Docker containers apt might require the key
to be in dearmored format, then use this command instead:
bash
wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eza-community/eza/main/deb.asc | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/gierens.asc
before proceeding with the others from above.
Eza is available from Nixpkgs.
For nix profile users:
shell
nix profile install nixpkgs#eza
For nix-env users:
shell
nix-env -i eza
On Gentoo, eza is available as a package sys-apps/eza:
bash
emerge --ask sys-apps/eza
Eza is available at openSUSE:Factory/eza:
bash
zypper ar https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/ factory-oss
zypper in eza
The preceding repository also contains the Bash, Fish, and Zsh completions.
You can install Eza from openSUSE:Factory/eza:
```bash
tee /etc/yum.repos.d/opensuse-tumbleweed-oss.repo < dnf install eza
``` The preceding repository also contains the Bash, Fish, and Zsh completions. Eza is available from Homebrew. To install eza, run: On macOS, eza is also available via MacPorts. To install eza, run: Eza is available from Scoop. To install eza, run: Click sections to expand. eza’s options are almost, but not quite, entirely unlike Pass the These options are available when running with Some of the options accept parameters:
eza is written in Rust.
You will need rustc version 1.56.1 or higher.
The recommended way to install Rust for development is from the official download page, using rustup. Once Rust is installed, you can compile eza with Cargo: The just command runner can be used to run some helpful development commands, in a manner similar to If you are compiling a copy for yourself, be sure to run To compile and install the manual pages, you will need pandoc.
The eza depends on libgit2 for certain features.
If you’re unable to compile libgit2, you can opt out of Git support by running If you intend to compile for musl, you will need to use the flag If you have a working Nix installation with flake support, you can use nix to manage your dev environment. The Nix Flake has a few features:
- Run Brew (MacOS)
shell
brew install eza
MacPorts (macOS)
shell
sudo port install eza
Scoop (Windows)
shell
scoop install eza
Command-line options
ls’s.Display options
Filtering options
.gitignore--all option twice to also show the . and .. directories.Long view options
--long (-l):
--git, --git-repos, --git-repos-no-status)
cargo build
cargo test
make.
Run just --list to get an overview of what’s available.cargo build --release or just build-release to benefit from release-mode optimisations.
Copy the resulting binary, which will be in the target/release directory, into a folder in your $PATH.
/usr/local/bin is usually a good choice.just man command will compile the Markdown into manual pages, which it will place in the target/man directory.
To use them, copy them into a directory that man will read.
/usr/local/share/man is usually a good choice.cargo build --no-default-features.vendored-openssl if you want to get the Git feature working.
The full command is cargo build --release --target=x86_64-unknown-linux-musl --features vendored-openssl,git.Developing on Nix (experimental) ❄️
nix develop
nix flake check to run treefmt on the repo.
- Run nix build and manually test ./results/bin/eza -- <arguments> for easy debugging.
- Run nix build .#test to run cargo test via the flake.
- Run nix build .#clippy to lint with clippy (still work in progress).Star History