Feature request: follow symlinks like ls -L, --dereference, or be even friendlier
Author: tv42Created Jun 1, 2018Updated May 21, 2025
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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.
- Could something like
ls -Lbe added? - Maybe even just always fetch the target size when a symlink size is asked for.
Source: ogham/exa