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Excellent Utilities: exa – replacement for ls

exa is a modern replacement for ls, a venerable command-line program that’s an integral part of any Linux distribution. exa sports more features and arguably better defaults than ls. It uses colours to distinguish file types and metadata. The tool recognizes symlinks, extended attributes, and Git. It’s compact, fast, and a single binary.

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