ls -L equivalent

[SleepyBag]

GNU ls has a option -L meaning not to show the target of links. It would be very useful for scripting if exa provides with such an option, especially given that this old issue is unsolved.

[sklages]

whoohoo, this is still an issue..!? I just moved from lsd to exa to immediately hit this one ... now moving back to lsd ...

[ariasuni]

Well, I don’t mind people commenting under old issues to say they’re encountering the same problem, but the passive-aggressive part don’t help things to go faster.

I’m currently doing most of the work here: triaging new issues, answering to new comments, triaging old issues, reviewing PRs, merging PRs, writing PRs. I don’t even care about most of these improvements or features, but I care about the project. And I also have other projects, a day job, a leaking roof, mental health issues, relationship issues, etc. and a social life.

I would be very happy to help people wanting to get involved in exa, and as you can see I’m trying to be responsive when people write comments or open PRs.

Also, for the record, I don’t think anyone cares if you use lsd or exa, both are different projects with different priorities, and we are not competing for market share or anything (to be honest I would be happy to work with the lsd project if it ever makes sense to do so).

[sklages]

It wasn't meant to be "passive-aggressive" and I didn't want to be offending .. I was honestly surprised that this is still an issue!

I know that lsd and exa are different projects, for most people "a modern replacement for ls" though. The priorities may differ, okay.

hmm, "I don’t even care about most of these improvements or features" .. resolving symlinks is more a basic function than an "improvement" or "feature". exa automatically dereferences symlinked directories (this is not correct), but not files. My apologies if I have overseen an option which dereferences symlinked files (just like ls -L does. The option name or letter is not important ..

Anyway, there is little reason to take offence...

[ariasuni]

Closing this in favor of #393