exa has a more readable output with colors and icons which you can look at and instantly know the filetypes of different files. It is also noticeably faster than ls.
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ls supports colours and symbols for file metadata (they're things like / and *, not icons, and they don't differentiate between file types, but I've very rarely been bothered about that. Either a directory is so full you're better off asking ls *.png to dig out the pictures or it's small and organised and you don't need help reading it.
lssupports colours and symbols for file metadata (they're things like/and*, not icons, and they don't differentiate between file types, but I've very rarely been bothered about that. Either a directory is so full you're better off askingls *.pngto dig out the pictures or it's small and organised and you don't need help reading it.Whatever works for you!