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eza(1) General Commands Manual eza(1) NAME eza -- a modern replacement for ls SYNOPSIS eza [options] [files...] eza is a modern replacement for ls. It uses colours for information by de- fault, helping you distinguish between many types of files, such as whether you are the owner, or in the owning group. It also has extra features not present in the original ls, such as viewing the Git status for a directory, or recursing into directories with a tree view. EXAMPLES eza Lists the contents of the current directory in a grid. eza --oneline --reverse --sort=size Displays a list of files with the largest at the top. eza --long --header --inode --git Displays a table of files with a header, showing each file's meta- data, inode, and Git status. eza --long --tree --level=3 Displays a tree of files, three levels deep, as well as each file's metadata. META OPTIONS --help Show list of command-line options. -v, --version Show version of eza. DISPLAY OPTIONS -1, --oneline Display one entry per line. --absolute=WHEN Display entries with their absolute path. Valid settings are `on', `follow', and `off'. When used without a value, defaults to `on'. `on': Show absolute paths for all entries. `follow': Show absolute paths and resolve symbolic links to their targets. `off': Show relative paths (default behavior). -F, --classify=WHEN Display file kind indicators next to file names. Valid settings are `always', `automatic' (or `auto' for short), and `never'. When used without a value, defaults to `automatic'. automatic or auto will display file kind indicators only when the standard output is connected to a real terminal. If eza is ran while in a tty, or the output of eza is either redirected to a file or piped into another pro- gram, file kind indicators will not be used. Setting this option to `al- ways' causes eza to always display file kind indicators, while `never' dis- ables the use of file kind indicators. -G, --grid Display entries as a grid (default). -l, --long Display extended file metadata as a table. -R, --recurse Recurse into directories. -T, --tree Recurse into directories as a tree. --code[=MODE] Print a lines-of-code summary by language instead of listing files, in the spirit of tools like tokei and cloc. The given paths (or the current directory) are walked recursively, honouring a git reposi- tory's .gitignore when one is present, and each recognised language is reported with its file, line, code, comment, and blank counts, plus a bar visualising its share of the code. Valid modes are `lines', `percent', and `both' (the default). --follow-symlinks Drill down into symbolic links that point to directories. -X, --dereference Dereference symbolic links when displaying information. -x, --across Sort the grid across, rather than downwards. --color=WHEN, --colour=WHEN When to use terminal colours (using ANSI escape code to colorize the output). Valid settings are `always', `automatic' (or `auto' for short), and `never'. When used without a value, defaults to `automatic'. The default behavior (`automatic' or `auto') is to colorize the output only when the standard output is connected to a real terminal. If the output of eza is redirected to a file or piped into another program, terminal colors will not be used. Setting this option to `always' causes eza to always output terminal color, while `never' disables the use of terminal color. Manually setting this option overrides NO_COLOR environment. --color-scale, --colour-scale highlight levels of field distinctly. Use comma(,) separated list of all, age, size --color-scale-mode=MODE, --colour-scale-mode=MODE Use gradient or fixed colors in --color-scale. Valid options are fixed or gradient. When used without a value, defaults to gradient. --icons=WHEN Display icons next to file names. Valid settings are `always', `automatic' (`auto' for short), and `never'. When used without a value, defaults to `automatic'. automatic or auto will display icons only when the standard output is con- nected to a real terminal. If eza is ran while in a tty, or the output of eza is either redirected to a file or piped into another program, icons will not be used. Setting this option to `always' causes eza to always display icons, while `never' disables the use of icons. --no-quotes Don't quote file names with spaces. --short-nix Abbreviate Nix store hashes in file names and paths. A path compo- nent beginning with a Nix store hash -- exactly 32 characters of Nix's base32 alphabet followed by a dash, like vlkia5wk0svsikwv50554mh06iayg2m2-source.drv -- is displayed with the hash shortened to its first 8 characters and an ellipsis, painted dim so the name stands out: vlkia5wk...-source.drv. This applies to listed names, symbolic link targets, and absolute paths. --hyperlink=WHEN Display entries as hyperlinks Valid settings are `always', `automatic' (`auto' for short), and `never'. When used without a value, defaults to `automatic'. automatic or auto will display hyperlinks only when the standard output is connected to a real terminal. If eza is ran while in a tty, or the output of eza is either redirected to a file or piped into another program, hyper- links will not be used. Setting this option to `always' causes eza to al- ways display hyperlinks, while `never' disables the use of hyperlinks. -w, --width=COLS Set screen width in columns. FILTERING AND SORTING OPTIONS -a, --all Show hidden and "dot" files. Use this twice to also show the `.' and `..' directories. -A, --almost-all Equivalent to -all; included for compatibility with ls -A. -d, --treat-dirs-as-files This flag, inherited from ls, changes how eza handles directory ar- guments. Instead of recursing into directories and listing their contents (the default behavior), it treats directories as regular files and lists information about the directory entry itself. This is useful when you want to see metadata about the directory (e.g., permissions, size, modification time) rather than its contents. For simply listing only directories and not files, consider using the --only-dirs (-D) option as an alternative. -L, --level=DEPTH Limit the depth of recursion. -r, --reverse Reverse the sort order. -s, --sort=SORT_FIELD Which field to sort by. Valid sort fields are `name', `Name', `extension', `Extension', `size', `modified', `changed', `accessed', `created', `inode', `type', and `none'. The modified sort field has the aliases `date', `time', and `newest', and its reverse order has the aliases `age' and `oldest'. Sort fields starting with a capital letter will sort uppercase before low- ercase: `A' then `B' then `a' then `b'. Fields starting with a lowercase letter will mix them: `A' then `a' then `B' then `b'. -I, --ignore-glob=GLOBS Glob patterns, pipe-separated, of files to ignore. --git-ignore [if eza was built with git support] Do not list files that are ignored by Git. --group-directories-first List directories before other files. --group-directories-last List directories after other files. -D, --only-dirs List only directories, not files. -f, --only-files List only files, not directories. --show-symlinks Explicitly show symbolic links (when used with --only-files | --only-dirs) --no-symlinks Do not show symbolic links LONG VIEW OPTIONS These options are available when running with --long (-l): -b, --binary List file sizes with binary prefixes. -B, --bytes List file sizes in bytes, without any prefixes. --changed Use the changed timestamp field. -g, --group List each file's group. --smart-group Only show group if it has a different name from owner -h, --header Add a header row to each column. -H, --links List each file's number of hard links. -i, --inode List each file's inode number. --loc[=MODE] Add a language column and a lines-of-code column to the long view. Only regular files in a recognised programming language are counted; counting is comment-aware, so the code column excludes comment and blank lines. Valid modes are `lines' (the count of code lines), `percent' (each file's share of the code in the whole tree), and `both' (the default). In percent and both modes the denominator is the total code across the recursed tree, or the git repository if one is present. -m, --modified Use the modified timestamp field. -M, --mounts Show mount details (Linux and Mac only) -n, --numeric List numeric user and group IDs. -O, --flags List file flags on Mac and BSD systems and file attributes on Win- dows systems. By default, Windows attributes are displayed in a long form. To display in attributes as single character set the en- vironment variable EZA_WINDOWS_ATTRIBUTES=short. On BSD systems see chflags(1) for a list of file flags and their meanings. -S, --blocksize List each file's size of allocated file system blocks. -t, --time=WORD Which timestamp field to list. Valid timestamp fields are `modi- fied', `changed', `accessed', and `created'. --time-style=STYLE How to format timestamps. Valid timestamp styles are `default', `iso', `long-iso', `full-iso', `relative', or a custom style `+<FOR- MAT>' (e.g., `+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M' => `2023-09-30 13:00'). <FORMAT> should be a chrono format string. For details on the chrono for- mat syntax, please read: https://docs.rs/chrono/latest/chrono/format/strf- time/index.html . Alternatively, <FORMAT> can be a two line string, the first line will be used for non-recent files and the second for recent files. E.g., if <FOR- MAT> is "%Y-%m-%d %H<newline>--%m-%d %H:%M", non-recent files => "2022-12-30 13", recent files => "--09-30 13:34". --total-size Show recursive directory size (unix only). -u, --accessed Use the accessed timestamp field. -U, --created Use the created timestamp field. --no-permissions Suppress the permissions field. -o, --octal-permissions List each file's permissions in octal format. --no-filesize Suppress the file size field. --no-user Suppress the user field. --no-time Suppress the time field. --stdin When you wish to pipe directories to eza/read from stdin. Separate one per line or define custom separation char in EZA_STDIN_SEPARATOR env variable. -@, --extended List each file's extended attributes and sizes. -Z, --context List each file's security context. --git [if eza was built with git support] List each file's Git status, if tracked. This adds a two-character column indicating the staged and unstaged statuses respectively. The status character can be `-' for not modified, `M' for a modified file, `N' for a new file, `D' for deleted, `R' for renamed, `T' for type-change, `I' for ignored, and `U' for conflicted. Directories will be shown to have the status of their contents, which is how `deleted' is possible if a directory contains a file that has a cer- tain status, it will be shown to have that status. --git-repos [if eza was built with git support] List each directory's Git status, if tracked. Symbols shown are |= clean, += dirty, and ~= for unknown. --git-repos-no-status [if eza was built with git support] List if a directory is a Git repository, but not its status. All Git repository directories will be shown as (themed) - without sta- tus indicated. --no-git Don't show Git status (always overrides --git, --git-repos, --git-repos-no-status) ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES If an environment variable prefixed with EZA_ is not set, for backward com- patibility, it will default to its counterpart starting with EXA_. eza responds to the following environment variables: COLUMNS Overrides the width of the terminal, in characters, however, -w takes precedence. For example, `COLUMNS=80 eza' will show a grid view with a maximum width of 80 characters. This option won't do anything when eza's output doesn't wrap, such as when using the --long view. EZA_STRICT Enables strict mode, which will make eza error when two command-line op- tions are incompatible. Usually, options can override each other going right-to-left on the command line, so that eza can be given aliases: creating an alias `eza=eza --sort=ext' then running `eza --sort=size' with that alias will run `eza --sort=ext --sort=size', and the sorting specified by the user will over- ride the sorting specified by the alias. In strict mode, the two options will not co-operate, and eza will error. This option is intended for use with automated scripts and other situations where you want to be certain you're typing in the right command. EZA_GRID_ROWS Limits the grid-details view (`eza --grid --long') so it's only activated when at least the given number of rows of output would be generated. With widescreen displays, it's possible for the grid to look very wide and sparse, on just one or two lines with none of the columns lining up. By specifying a minimum number of rows, you can only use the view if it's go- ing to be worth using. EZA_ICON_SPACING Specifies the number of spaces to print between an icon (see the `--icons' option) and its file name. Different terminals display icons differently, as they usually take up more than one character width on screen, so there's no "standard" number of spaces that eza can use to separate an icon from text. One space may place the icon too close to the text, and two spaces may place it too far away. So the choice is left up to the user to configure depending on their termi- nal emulator. NO_COLOR Disables colours in the output (regardless of its value). Can be overrid- den by --color option. See https://no-color.org/ for details. LS_COLORS, EZA_COLORS Specifies the colour scheme used to highlight files based on their name and kind, as well as highlighting metadata and parts of the UI. For more information on the format of these environment variables, see the eza_colors.5.md manual page. EZA_OVERRIDE_GIT Overrides any --git or --git-repos argument EZA_MIN_LUMINANCE Specifies the minimum luminance to use when color-scale is active. It's value can be between -100 to 100. EZA_ICONS_AUTO If set, automates the same behavior as using --icons or --icons=auto. Use- ful for if you always want to have icons enabled. Any explicit use of the --icons=WHEN flag overrides this behavior. EZA_STDIN_SEPARATOR Specifies the separator to use when file names are piped from stdin. De- faults to newline. EZA_CONFIG_DIR Specifies the directory where eza will look for its configuration and theme files. Defaults to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/eza or $HOME/.config/eza if XDG_CON- FIG_HOME is not set. EXIT STATUSES 0 If everything goes OK. 1 If there was an I/O error during operation. 3 If there was a problem with the command-line arguments. 13 If permission is denied to access a path. AUTHOR eza is maintained by Christina SA,rensen and many other contributors. Source code: https://github.com/eza-community/eza Contributors: https://github.com/eza-community/eza/graphs/contributors Our infinite thanks to Benjamin `ogham' Sago and all the other contributors of exa, from which eza was forked. SEE ALSO * eza_colors(5) * eza_colors-explanation(5) $version eza(1)
NAME | SYNOPSIS | EXAMPLES | META OPTIONS | DISPLAY OPTIONS | FILTERING AND SORTING OPTIONS | LONG VIEW OPTIONS | ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES | EXIT STATUSES | AUTHOR | SEE ALSO
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