Is there a terminal file manager that has good support for archives? The features I’d like are:

  • being able to enter archives like directories
  • shortcut to archive all selected files
  • oldroad
    8•3 years ago

    If you like terminal programs, you can give nnn a try.

    https://github.com/jarun/nnn

    Fast, great feature set and keybindings, and very configurable! And you can either list the contents of am archive or mount it as a filesystem

    • @5G_technicianOP
      2•3 years ago

      Thanks for the recommendation. Nnn is very fast and I like the text file buffer of selected files that you can edit in vim but I can’t figure out how to create a new archive. It’s not on the github page and I couldn’t find it in the help menu you get when you press “?”

      • oldroad
        2•3 years ago

        Which version do you have? I know earlier versions had constantly changing keybindings, but in v3.6 it shows z as archive. You can also use ] to open up a shell and run an arbitrary command, or write up a script to use as a plugin to archive/extract/etc.

        • @5G_technicianOP
          2•3 years ago

          Ok sorry I forgot less searches are case sensitive and didn’t try “Archive”, only “archive”. I have 4.0 on arch linux.

          It works pretty good. Thank you

      • SeerLite
        2•3 years ago

        See here in the wiki, you have to export NNN_ARCHIVE. Then when you try to open it an archive you get the additional option to mount.

        It uses archivemount under the hood (it’s gonna ask you to install it), and I guess this tool can also be used with other file managers. I’m gonna see if there’s some snippet to use it with the one I use (lf), or I’ll make one. I don’t know how I’ve been living without this for so long haha it’s gonna be so useful