exa -l does not show group info?

[laoshaw]

If exa does something unexpected, or its output looks wrong, or it displays an error on the screen, or if it outright crashes, then please include the following information in your report:

• The version of exa being used (exa --version) : v0.10.1
• The command-line arguments you are using: exa -l
• Your operating system and hardware platform: ubuntu 20.04

If it’s a crash, please include the full text of the crash that gets printed to the screen. If you’re seeing unexpected behaviour, a screenshot of the issue will help a lot.

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ls -l will list both user and group info
exa -l only list user info, group info is missing

[laoshaw]

[eggbean]

You need to add the -g switch to get the group column.

eg.

$ exa -lg

[laoshaw]

Thanks!

[mtalexan]

You need to add the -g switch to get the group column.

eg.

$ exa -lg

Doesn't that make it a digression? My understanding was that exa was trying to be a drop-in replacement for ls for the common options. ls -l and ls -la are so common most distros have aliases for them: ll and lla. While it's reasonable to add more info to what the exa -l option displays, it needs to include at least the same info as ls -l.

I believe just making -l imply -g as well would satisfy this.

[eggbean]

I suppose the reasoning is removing unnecessary information which you don't really need.

You can make exa pretty much like ls if you alias ls to this script - https://gist.github.com/eggbean/74db77c4f6404dd1f975bd6f048b86f8

[mtalexan]

Excellent script. It would be really awesome if we could get a link to it in the README.

I suspect you're right about the reasoning, even though it's very flawed (group is needed about as often as owner)

[ariasuni]

It’s very very rare that I need to show the group of a file, personally. I don’t think I’ve used the feature for more than a year, except to test exa and debug the feature itself.

But if you think it should be changed, please open an issue at active fork eza, since exa is unmaintained (see #1243).