eza is a modern replacement for ls — colours that mean something, a
column showing what git thinks of each file, and a tree view built in, so
there is no second command to reach for.
It is the maintained fork of exa. Sizes come out human-readable, columns
line up, directories can be grouped first, and --git adds a column with
each file's status — modified, new, staged, ignored — so you can see the
state of a checkout without running git status. Most people alias ls
to it and stop thinking about it.
The demo opens in eza's own source, cloned with its recent history and
three pending changes. Run eza -l --header --git for the git column,
eza --tree --level=2 src for the tree, and eza -l --sort=size --reverse to put the big files at the top. The VM is private to your
browser tab; nothing you type leaves it.
Commands to try
eza | the plain listing, colour-coded by file type |
eza -l --header --git | the long view with a git status column |
eza --tree --level=2 src | a tree two levels deep |
eza -l --sort=size --reverse | biggest files first |
eza -la --group-directories-first | everything, folders first |
Install eza on your own machine
| Alpine | apk add eza |
| Debian 13+ / Ubuntu 24.10+ | apt install eza |
| macOS (Homebrew) | brew install eza |
| Arch | pacman -S eza |
| cargo | cargo install eza |
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