ranger is a console file manager with VI key bindings. It provides a minimalistic and nice curses interface with a view on the directory hierarchy It ships with rifle, a file launcher that is good at automatically finding out which program to use for what file type.

For mc aficionados there's also the multi-pane viewmode.

This file describes ranger and how to get it to run. For instructions on the usage, please read the man page (man ranger in a terminal). See HACKING.md for development-specific information.

For configuration, check the files in ranger/config/ or copy the default config to ~/.config/ranger with ranger --copy-config (see instructions).

The examples/ directory contains several scripts and plugins that demonstrate how ranger can be extended or combined with other programs. These files can be found in the git repository or in /usr/share/doc/ranger.

A note to packagers: Versions meant for…

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lf (as in "list files") is a terminal file manager written in Go with a heavy inspiration from ranger file manager See faq for more information and tutorial for a gentle introduction with screencasts.

• Cross-platform (Linux, macOS, BSDs, Windows)
• Single binary without any runtime dependencies
• Fast startup and low memory footprint due to native code and static binaries
• Asynchronous IO operations to avoid UI locking
• Server/client architecture and remote commands to manage multiple instances
• Extendable and configurable with shell commands
• Customizable keybindings (vi and readline defaults)
• A reasonable set of other features (see the documentation)

• Tabs or windows (better handled by window manager or terminal multiplexer)
• Builtin pager/editor (better handled by your pager/editor of choice)
• Builtin commands for file operations (better handled by the underlying shell tools including but not limited…

Walk — a terminal navigator.

Why another terminal navigator? I wanted something simple and minimalistic Something to help me with faster navigation in the filesystem; a cd and ls replacement. So I build walk. It allows for quick navigation with fuzzy searching, cd integration is quite simple. And you can open vim right from the walk. That's it.

brew install walk

pkg_add walk

go install github.com/antonmedv/walk@latest

Or download prebuild binaries.

Put the next function into the .bashrc or a similar config:

function lk {
  cd "$(walk "$@")"
}

function lk
  set loc (walk $argv); and cd $loc;
end

function lk() {
  cd $(walk $args)
}

Now use lk command to start walking.

nnn (n³) is a full-featured terminal file manager. It's tiny, nearly 0-config and incredibly fast.

It is designed to be unobtrusive with smart workflows to match the trains of thought.

nnn can analyze disk usage, batch rename, launch apps and pick files. The plugin repository has tons of plugins to extend the capabilities further e.g. live previews, (un)mount disks, find & list, file/dir diff, upload files. A patch framework hosts sizable user-submitted patches which are subjective in nature.

Independent (neo)vim plugins - nnn.vim, vim-floaterm nnn wrapper and nnn.nvim (neovim exclusive).

Runs on the Pi, Termux (Android), Linux, macOS, BSD, Haiku, Cygwin, WSL, across DEs or a strictly CLI env.

(there's more)

• Quality
  • Privacy-aware (no unconfirmed user data collection)
  • POSIX-compliant, follows Linux kernel coding style
  • Highly optimized, static…

Yazi (means "duck") is a terminal file manager written in Rust, based on non-blocking async I/O. It aims to provide an efficient, user-friendly, and customizable file management experience.

💡 A new article explaining its internal workings: Why is Yazi Fast?

• 🚀 Full Asynchronous Support: All I/O operations are asynchronous, CPU tasks are spread across multiple threads, making the most of available resources.
• 💪 Powerful Async Task Scheduling and Management: Provides real-time progress updates, task cancellation, and internal task priority assignment.
• 🖼️ Built-in Support for Multiple Image Protocols: Also integrated with Überzug++, covering almost all terminals.
• 🌟 Built-in Code Highlighting and Image Decoding: Combined with the pre-loading mechanism, greatly accelerates image and normal file loading.
• 🔌 Concurrent Plugin System: UI plugins (rewriting most of the UI), functional plugins, custom previewer, and custom preloader; Just some pieces of Lua.
• …