On: Exa, a modern replacement for ls

[pmoriarty]

"exa prints human-readable file sizes by default (when would you not want that?)"

When doing automated text-processing and wanting to easily do precise calculations, without having to deal with different units.

[masklinn → pmoriarty]

The important part is by default. exa can provide bytes sizes, it just provides human-readable ones by default.

[icebraining → pmoriarty]

How does the number of bytes help with text processing? Are all your files in fixed-length encodings?

[antoinealb → icebraining]

Probably means "when processing ls output", in which case not having to do prefix conversion is easier.