eza-community/eza
A modern alternative to ls
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
No releases in the last 90 days; the most recent was 120 days ago, with 288 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #36 in the weekly ranking the week of Oct 5, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a modern, feature-rich replacement for the Unix/Linux ls command to list files and directories in the terminal.
- Offers enhanced file listing with color coding, icons, Git status, hyperlinks, and extended metadata in a single fast binary.
- Use for improving terminal file navigation with visually distinct file types and metadata on macOS, Linux, or Windows.
- Use for integrating Git repository status directly into directory listings to streamline development workflows.
- Use for customizing terminal file display themes and icons via a configuration file to match user preferences or accessibility needs.
Should you depend on it?
License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.
License
EUPL 1.2
Copyleft (European Union Public Licence): distributing modified versions generally requires releasing the source under the EUPL or a compatible license.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
Watch-outs
No watch-outs from GStars' checks.
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From the README
A modern replacement for ls.
eza is a modern alternative for the venerable file-listing command-line program
lsthat 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):
...and like, so much more that it became exhausting to update this all the time. Like seriously, we have a lot of good stuff.
If you already have Nix setup with flake support, you can try out eza with the
nix runcommand: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.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
552+60
Open issues
479+61
Compared with peers in CLI
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 8, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| morluto/rea | 450.0K | +22.9K | 75 | 16 days ago |
| mattpocock/skills | 320.9K | +9.5K | 75 | 12 days ago |
| vercel-labs/agent-desktop | 21.4K | +8.7K | 75 | 5 days ago |
| stablyai/orca | 121.4K | +6.7K | 75 | today |
| vercel-labs/agent-browser | 49.2K | +3.8K | 75 | 1 day ago |
| eza-community/eza | 23.8K | — | 58 | 120 days ago |
| Category median | 121.4K | +8.7K | 75 | — |
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