• walden
      6•3 months ago

      I learned you can edit .bashrc (in your home dir) and update the alias for ls to include what I like. It has saved me lots of keystrokes. Mine is ls -lha in addition to whatever color coding stuff is there by default.

        • walden
          2•3 months ago

          Hmm, that’s not working for me. You mean use those as options? ‘ls -eza’?

            • walden
              1•3 months ago

              Aha. Well, I guess I’m not the target audience because I can’t be bothered to go through the installation steps. It’s not in the LMDE repository, but I wish it were!

              • Noxious
                1•3 months ago

                It’s pretty easy. You either get it from Cargo (the Rust package manager) or add a custom repo to apt.

                Cargo is the easier and safer option: curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh && cargo install eza

                Custom apt repo:

                sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y gpg

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

                In my opinion though, you should also try lsd. It’s even better than eza. You can also get it from Cargo, just a simple cargo install lsd.

            • @emb
              1•3 months ago

              There’s a whole bunch of cool modern replacements. Here’s a handy list: altbox.dev

              I personally use bat and rg all the time, and find them much more suitable for everyday tasks.

              Edit: And to clarify, I didn’t create either list, they’re just ones I’d bookmarked at some point.

      • @[email protected]
        2•3 months ago

        A lot of distros include a .bashrc with common ls aliases commented out, just waiting for you to activate them if you like.

    • @avguser
      3•3 months ago

      Another ls alias I’m a fan of is ls -latr which I alias to lt. It gives you a time sorted directory listing with the most recent next to your cursor (helpful for large directories).