Usage: exa [options] [files...] META OPTIONS -?, --help show list of command-line options -v, --version show version of exa DISPLAY OPTIONS -1, --oneline display one entry per line -l, --long display extended file metadata as a table -G, --grid display entries as a grid (default) -x, --across sort the grid across, rather than downwards -R, --recurse recurse into directories -T, --tree recurse into directories as a tree -F, --classify display type indicator by file names --colo[u]r=WHEN when to use terminal colours (always, auto, never) --colo[u]r-scale highlight levels of file sizes distinctly --icons display icons --no-icons don't display icons (always overrides --icons) FILTERING AND SORTING OPTIONS -a, --all show hidden and 'dot' files -d, --list-dirs list directories as files; don't list their contents -L, --level DEPTH limit the depth of recursion -r, --reverse reverse the sort order -s, --sort SORT_FIELD which field to sort by --group-directories-first list directories before other files -D, --only-dirs list only directories -I, --ignore-glob GLOBS glob patterns (pipe-separated) of files to ignore --git-ignore ignore files mentioned in '.gitignore' Valid sort fields: name, Name, extension, Extension, size, type, modified, accessed, created, inode, and none. date, time, old, and new all refer to modified. LONG VIEW OPTIONS -b, --binary list file sizes with binary prefixes -B, --bytes list file sizes in bytes, without any prefixes -g, --group list each file's group -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 -m, --modified use the modified timestamp field -n, --numeric list numeric user and group IDs -S, --blocks show number of file system blocks -t, --time FIELD which timestamp field to list (modified, accessed, created) -u, --accessed use the accessed timestamp field -U, --created use the created timestamp field --changed use the changed timestamp field --time-style how to format timestamps (default, iso, long-iso, full-iso, relative) --no-permissions suppress the permissions field --octal-permissions list each file's permission in octal format --no-filesize suppress the filesize field --no-user suppress the user field --no-time suppress the time field --git list each file's Git status, if tracked or ignored -@, --extended list each file's extended attributes and sizes