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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 $HOME/.cargo.
Eza is available in the [extra] repository of Arch Linux.
bash
pacman -S eza
Eza is available from deb.gierens.de. The GPG public key is in this repo under deb.asc.
First make sure you have the gpg command, and otherwise install it via:
bash
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y gpg
Then install eza via:
bash
sudo mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings
wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eza-community/eza/main/deb.asc | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/gierens.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/gierens.gpg] http://deb.gierens.de stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gierens.list
sudo chmod 644 /etc/apt/keyrings/gierens.gpg /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gierens.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y eza
Eza is available from Nixpkgs.
For nix profile users:
shell
nix profile install nixpkgs#eza
For nix-env users:
shell
nix-env -i eza
On Gentoo, eza is available as a package sys-apps/eza:
bash
emerge --ask sys-apps/eza
Eza is available at openSUSE:Factory/eza:
bash
zypper ar https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/ factory-oss
zypper in eza
The preceding repository also contains the Bash, Fish, and Zsh completions.
Fedora support is in the works.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2238264
Eza is available as the eza package in the official Void Linux repository.
bash
sudo xbps-install eza
Eza is available from Homebrew.
To install eza, run:
shell
brew install eza
On macOS, eza is also available via MacPorts.
To install eza, run:
shell
sudo port install eza
Eza is available on Winget.
To install eza, run:
shell
winget install eza-community.eza
Eza is available from Scoop.
To install eza, run:
shell
scoop install eza
Note Change
~/.zshrcto your preferred zsh config file.
sh
git clone https://github.com/eza-community/eza.git
Replace <path_to_eza> with the actual path where you cloned the eza repository.
sh
echo 'export FPATH="<path_to_eza>/completions/zsh:$FPATH"' >> ~/.zshrc
sh
source ~/.zshrc
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eza’s options are almost, but not quite, entirely unlike ls’s.
.gitignorePass the --all option twice to also show the . and .. directories.
These options are available when running with --long (-l):
--git, --git-repos, --git-repos-no-status)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:
cargo build
cargo test
The just command runner can be used to run some helpful development commands, in a manner similar to make.
Run just --list to get an overview of what’s available.
If you are compiling a copy for yourself, be sure to run 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.
To compile and install the manual pages, you will need pandoc.
The 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.
eza depends on libgit2 for certain features.
If you’re unable to compile libgit2, you can opt out of Git support by running cargo build --no-default-features.
If you intend to compile for musl, you will need to use the flag 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.
If you have a working Nix installation with flake support, you can use nix to manage your dev environment.
nix develop
The Nix Flake has a few features:
nix flake check to run treefmt on the repo.nix build and manually test ./results/bin/eza -- <arguments> for easy debugging.nix build .#test to run cargo test via the flake.nix build .#clippy to lint with clippy (still work in progress).