#393·exa

Feature request: follow symlinks like ls -L, --dereference, or be even friendlier

Author: tv42Created Jun 1, 2018Updated May 21, 2025
Labelsgood-first-bug

Hi. I have some large files managed externally, and symlinks to them in git. I often want to see the sizes of the large files, not the sizes of the symlinks.

In fact, I consider displaying the size of the symlink an exercise in silliness; I'd much rather see the size of the target.

Exa doesn't seem to have anything like ls -L to give me that information.

  1. Could something like ls -L be added?
  2. Maybe even just always fetch the target size when a symlink size is asked for.