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		cytzol on Feb 21, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Exa, a replacement for ls written in Rust Do you mean recursing into a directory and summing the file sizes of its contents? exa doesn't do this, sorry, but it's something I've been thinking of adding. ls actually displays the 'file size' of the directory, which I've left out, as that number has never benefitted me, ever.

heinrich5991 on Feb 22, 2015 [–]

On ZFS, the number of entries in a directory is reported as the directory's file size in bytes. Pretty nice, but unfortunate if a tool would hide it.

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