Exa-zsh Plugin

Exa aliases plugin for zsh.

This plugin defines useful aliases that can be used for exa the moden alternative of ls.

Installation

This plugin is written with MacOS in mind. but it should work on any unix based OS.

1. First, Install exa

brew install exa

2. Clone this repository into zsh plugins folder

    cd ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins
    git clone https://github.com/MohamedElashri/exa-zsh

or

cd $ZSH_CUSTOM/plugins/
git clone https://github.com/MohamedElashri/exa-zsh

3. Add the plugin to /.zshrc

   You should add exa-zsh to the plugin list

   plugins=(... exa-zsh)

4. Restart the terminal session

Usage/Examples

This project contain some useful aliasses that you can run in your terminal that zsh supported like ITerm2.

You can type in the alias in your terminal. This is a list of available aliasses.

Alias	Command	Help
ls	exa	just replace ls by exa and allow all other exa arguments
l	ls -lbF	list, size, type
ll	ls -la	long, all
llm	ll --sort=modified	list, long, sort by modification date
la	ls -lbhHigUmuSa	all list
lx	ls -lbhHigUmuSa@	all list and extended
tree	exa --tree	tree view
lS	exa -1	one column by just names

Contributing

Contributions are always welcome!

Pull requests are welcome. I will try to they are compatible.

Please make sure to update tests as appropriate.

Authors

• @MohamedElashri

License

MIT