How to display column headers for ‘ls -l’ command in unix/linux?

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exa is a replacement/enhancement for ls. If you pass on the arguments -lh with exa, it will include a header row printing the column names like so:

exa -lh

Example output:

Permissions Size User     Date Modified Name
.rwx------    19 username 29 Sep 11:25  dont_cra.sh
drw-r-----     - username 29 Sep 11:26  f1
.rw-r--r--@ 811k username 29 Sep 11:25  row_count.dat
.rw-r--r--    54 username 29 Sep 11:25  some_text.txt

You can set up an alias in .bashrc that replaces ls with exa.

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