Alternatives to Discontinued exa

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discontinued Maintainer stopped responding to issues and PRs in mid-2023, with no commits after April 2023. Critical bugs and security issues went unpatched. The community forked it as eza, which rapidly overtook exa in adoption. A textbook case of single-maintainer burnout killing a popular open-source project.

eza

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Modern replacement for the Unix ls command written in Rust with color-coded output, Git integration showing file status, tree view, icon support, extended attributes display, and hyperlink support for terminals. Faster than ls with features like recursive directory listing, grid/long/tree layouts, and filtering by file type. Maintained fork of the discontinued exa project. Part of the modern CLI toolkit alongside bat, fd, ripgrep, and zoxide. 14K+ GitHub stars.

Free and 100% open source under the European Union Public Licence 1.2 (EUPL-1.2). eza is completely free for personal, educational, and commercial enterprise use with zero software licensing costs.

Open-source exa alternatives

eza — see all open-source developer tools.

More Terminal & CLI Tools tools

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FAQ

Which exa alternative is listed first?

eza is first in the editor-selected list of 1 exa alternatives. The stored order is editorial; review scores do not determine membership or position.

Are there open-source exa alternatives?

Yes — eza are open source.

What should I use instead of exa?

exa has been discontinued — Maintainer stopped responding to issues and PRs in mid-2023, with no commits after April 2023. Critical bugs and security issues went unpatched. The community forked it as eza, which rapidly overtook exa in adoption. A textbook case of single-maintainer burnout killing a popular open-source project. The first editor-selected replacements are eza.