This is a brief article for installing exa in Arch Linux with an additional package for the icon fonts (in a few installations, boxes were shown instead of icons, that’s why I’m writing this blog article, hoping to save you some time).
Installing exa in Arch is just a matter of running:
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sudo pacman-Sexa
However, you need a “Nerd” font to get the icon symbols. This is the one I install:
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sudo pacman-Sttf-arimo-nerd
In EndeavourOS KDE, this should already be installed. I seem to understand that this is not the case for EndeavourOS GNOME. If these fonts are not installed, you can install them with the command above and make sure to reboot.
The output is excellent, and I aliased many of my previous ls commands to exa:
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aliasl='exa -lah --color=always --group-directories-first --icons'# with headers
alias la='exa -al --color=always --group-directories-first --icons'# all files and dirs
alias ll='exa -l --color=always --group-directories-first --icons'# long format
This is the beautiful colored output you get, and note the icons for directories and known files types in Gnome (in particular, a “cup of coffee” for Java files):
The same holds for KDE:
I also have another alias for the tree output of exa:
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alias lt='exa -aT --color=always --group-directories-first --icons'# tree listing
And this is the output:
Note the “–git-ignore” command line argument to ask exa to skip all the files that match the patterns in the current “.gitignore” file.
I haven't been using Ubuntu for a while, but I wanted to give it another try. I'm using my Ansible playbook for installing ZSH, Oh My Zsh, and p10k (Powerlevel10k), so I thought everything would work like a charm. However, after running the playbook and restarting, the terminal did not…
I have already started blogging about Ansible; in particular, I have shown how to develop and test an Ansible role with Molecule and Docker, also on Gitpod. This blog post will describe my Ansible role for installing "Oh My Zsh" and several command line programs. The role also installs the…
Recently, I blogged about using KDE applications in Hyprland. I also blogged about theming and styling them. However, I'm not very happy with that solution, so I'll provide a possible alternative, which, in my opinion, is better. Some of the steps are similar to the ones in my previous post.…
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