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.TH EXA "1" "February 2021" "exa 0.9.0" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
exa \- exa
.SH DESCRIPTION
.SS "Usage:"
.IP
exa [options] [files...]
.TP
\-?, \fB\-\-help\fR
show list of command\-line options
.TP
\fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR
show version of exa
.PP
DISPLAY OPTIONS
.TP
\fB\-1\fR, \fB\-\-oneline\fR
display one entry per line
.TP
\fB\-l\fR, \fB\-\-long\fR
display extended file metadata as a table
.TP
\fB\-G\fR, \fB\-\-grid\fR
display entries as a grid (default)
.TP
\fB\-x\fR, \fB\-\-across\fR
sort the grid across, rather than downwards
.TP
\fB\-R\fR, \fB\-\-recurse\fR
recurse into directories
.TP
\fB\-T\fR, \fB\-\-tree\fR
recurse into directories as a tree
.TP
\fB\-F\fR, \fB\-\-classify\fR
display type indicator by file names
.TP
\fB\-\-colo[u]r\fR=\fI\,WHEN\/\fR
when to use terminal colours (always, auto, never)
.TP
\fB\-\-colo[u]r\-scale\fR
highlight levels of file sizes distinctly
.PP
FILTERING AND SORTING OPTIONS
.TP
\fB\-a\fR, \fB\-\-all\fR
show hidden and 'dot' files
.TP
\fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-list\-dirs\fR
list directories like regular files
.TP
\fB\-L\fR, \fB\-\-level\fR DEPTH
limit the depth of recursion
.TP
\fB\-r\fR, \fB\-\-reverse\fR
reverse the sort order
.TP
\fB\-s\fR, \fB\-\-sort\fR SORT_FIELD
which field to sort by
.TP
\fB\-\-group\-directories\-first\fR
list directories before other files
.TP
\fB\-D\fR, \fB\-\-only\-dirs\fR
list only directories
.TP
\fB\-I\fR, \fB\-\-ignore\-glob\fR GLOBS
glob patterns (pipe\-separated) of files to ignore
.TP
\fB\-\-git\-ignore\fR
Ignore files mentioned in '.gitignore'
.TP
Valid sort fields:
name, Name, extension, Extension, size, type,
modified, accessed, created, inode, and none.
date, time, old, and new all refer to modified.
.PP
LONG VIEW OPTIONS
.TP
\fB\-b\fR, \fB\-\-binary\fR
list file sizes with binary prefixes
.TP
\fB\-B\fR, \fB\-\-bytes\fR
list file sizes in bytes, without any prefixes
.TP
\fB\-g\fR, \fB\-\-group\fR
list each file's group
.TP
\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-header\fR
add a header row to each column
.TP
\fB\-H\fR, \fB\-\-links\fR
list each file's number of hard links
.TP
\fB\-i\fR, \fB\-\-inode\fR
list each file's inode number
.TP
\fB\-m\fR, \fB\-\-modified\fR
use the modified timestamp field
.TP
\fB\-S\fR, \fB\-\-blocks\fR
show number of file system blocks
.TP
\fB\-t\fR, \fB\-\-time\fR FIELD
which timestamp field to list (modified, accessed, created)
.TP
\fB\-u\fR, \fB\-\-accessed\fR
use the accessed timestamp field
.TP
\fB\-U\fR, \fB\-\-created\fR
use the created timestamp field
.TP
\fB\-\-time\-style\fR
how to format timestamps (default, iso, long\-iso, full\-iso)