Some people in the comments not understanding how alias work, If you alias ls to exa it's only going to affect the environment in your shell/prompt. If you run

Some people in the comments not understanding how alias work, If you alias ls to exa it's only going to affect the environment in your shell/prompt. If you run any command that relies on ls it's not going to be affected by the alias. Also I prefer lsd or plain ls --color.