diff --git a/Brewfile b/Brewfile
index 054a3ba..cd910fa 100644
--- a/Brewfile
+++ b/Brewfile
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ tap "adoptopenjdk/openjdk"
 # primitives
 # https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_GNU_Core_Utilities_commands
 brew "coreutils"
+brew "exa"
 brew "git"
 brew "neovim"
 brew "zsh"
diff --git a/zsh/alias.zsh b/zsh/alias.zsh
index 9d8f0ca..9531e6f 100644
--- a/zsh/alias.zsh
+++ b/zsh/alias.zsh
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 alias tmux="TERM=screen-256color tmux -2"
 alias vi="vim"
+alias ls="exa"
 alias mux="TERM=screen-256color tmuxinator"
 #alias ls="ls -alh"
 alias cp="cp -i"