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Touche on Feb 22, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Exa, a replacement for ls written in Rust

I'm not sure about ls. As for this tool all it seems to add is git status, but it's not working for me for some reason (not sure why) so I can't comment on the usefulness of this.

I do think some other coreutils could be replaced. cp for example, doesn't give you a progress bar so if you are copying a very large file it could take 2 minutes or 2 hours. I suppose you could create a wrapper for cp that repeatedly ls-es the destination directory to give you a progress of the copy.

cytzol on Feb 23, 2015 | [–]

This has dropped off the frontpage, so I feel better about going off-topic: but you can use rsync instead of cp if you want a progress bar!

Touche on Feb 23, 2015 | | [–]

Ah yes, I always forget that rsync does basically everything!

tshepang on Feb 22, 2015 | [–]

Would also be nice if the cp replacement (optionally) checks for available storage space before copying files.

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