ogham/exa

Make piping Exa's output leave out the icons if you added --icons.

Oglo12 opened this issue · 2 comments

Oglo12 commented

Hello, I have Exa aliased to ls, but I can't help but be bothered that piping exa --icons to another program includes the icons! I know that there is a way to fix this, after all, there is another Rust program called Bat that does this. Anyway, it would be really nice to have this fixed!

Example when piping into FZF:

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eggbean commented

Yes, it even adds icons with the -1 switch, which is a bad oversight. I don't use --icons myself.

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kirill-lappo-dg7 commented

I think it would be better to make --icons option work the same as --color option.

For ex:

--colo[u]r=WHEN    when to use terminal colours (always, auto, never)
--icons=WHEN       when to use icons (always, auto, never)

To make it compatible, auto can be a default value when just --icons is specified.