Sysadmin tools: exa, a modern alternative to ls in Linux

Out with the old, in with the new! Explore an improvement on a classic Linux tool for listing files at your command line.

exa, as I mentioned earlier, is an improvement on the classic ls command. At its heart, it serves to display listing information for all files and directories in your current working directory. It doesn’t sound all that exciting, does it? There is, however, more on offer here than you might initially think.

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