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The idea for your site is great. A quick suggestion: if you want everyone to immediately understand and sympathize with your cause, then use the tools that everyone knows in your examples. Using some long exa incantation risks alienating people that don't care about things like the latest trendy grep alternative. Just use: `ls -d .*` or `ls -a`

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Using some long exa incantation risks alienating people that don't care about things like the latest trendy grep alternative

Exa is the latest, trendy ls alternative.

I don’t think you should remove the Exa example but you certainly should show how to use ls to do something similar for those people still living in the dark ages—ls was created in the 1970s and it hasn’t kept up with the times all that well [1].

I created an ‘ll’ alias for Exa using the Fish shell; obviously you make shell-appropriate aliases in Bash or Z shell:

    function ll
      exa --color always --long --no-user --no-permissions --all --icons $argv
    end

[1]: https://the.exa.website/introduction

I appreciate that you are trying to be helpful, but you might be over-evangelizing trendy things at the risk of appearing patronizing; exa is a thing like the latest trendy grep alternative, and the point of my original comment still stands.

No need to have a rosetta stone of alternatives to demonstrate an illustrative example where the basic tool that everybody already knows and understands at a glance works.

I'm not saying that exa, or fish, or ripgrep, or any other trendy tool is bad.

Thanks for the suggestion - agreed, I'll make that change

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