On: Exa, a modern replacement for ls

[untog]

This is cool, but it doesn't solve (in fact, exacerbates) my usual complaint with `ls` - I don't know what the arguments are. The example on the site is:

    exa -bghHliS

Argh! I want to be able to say `ls --size` to get the file sizes. I don't want to remember a million arguments.

[solomatov → untog]

Completely agree. If the author wants it to be a better alternative to ls, it should have better default. I.e. -bghHliS should be the default options.

[Touche → solomatov]

I guess everyone has their preferences. exa -bghHliS is too much info for me. I agree there should be a shorthand for "give me everything" though.

[solomatov → Touche]

Yes, it's probably too much. But what's shown by default is too little for me.

[Touche → untog]

This is what aliases are for.

    alias exa-size='exa -bghHliS'