Yes, I was thinking about exa and ripgrep recently, since I am going to write a couple of tools (very loosely) like ls/find and grep in a while (for learning an

Yes, I was thinking about exa and ripgrep recently, since I am going to write a couple of tools (very loosely) like ls/find and grep in a while (for learning and as tutorials). Thought the same as you, that for a command that is to be typed so often as ls, exa is a bit longer (even though just one letter). Of course it can be aliased to a shorter name or one can write a shell script wrapper for it. The point about single hand vs. both is a good one, that had not occurred to me. Edited to change: like them to: like ls/find and grep which is what I should have written originally.