Long time nnn user right now. But interested in hearing some other people suggestions in case I missed something more interesting.
ranger is another good one. I very rarely end up using a terminal file manager though.
I use ranger with zoxide plugin, very handy. I even use it inside neovim as well, using rnvimr plugin.
Yeah. I keep hearing good things about ranger. Might give this a try soon
@theodore Midnight Commander
Yep, midnight commander is hands down the best file manager I’ve ever used.
With great respect, and speaking as someone who has used both very extensively, I would argue Total Commander (on Windows) has got the upper hand of all those traditional NC clones.
Any spesific reason on choosing it?
@theodore I’ve always used it I guess, back to Solaris, FreeBSD days, it does everything inc FTP
Nice. Will try it
I generally I only do simple operations on the command line. A few
cp,mv,ls… If I am doing much more than that I open a GUI manager.same.
back on dos i used xtreegold for everything.
but since moving to linux, it’s never occurred to me to use one.this thread has got me wondering but not sure i can see the need.
tab completion also makes handling directory structure easy enough.
lf is like ranger, but also very fast https://github.com/gokcehan/lf
There is also joshuto, another ranger clone, written in rust.
I used
rangerpreviously, but I’m anlfconvert. It was a bit difficult to set some things up, but it’s blazing fast and there are things about it I prefer.
I use the terminal to manage files. That’s all
rangerand I have nothing but praise for it. That’s as a Linux user of 15 years, formerly a bit of a skeptic about the use of such a tool. I use it not just as a file manager but as a platform for launching scripts and GUI programs via key bindings. I’ve pretty much turned it into a TUI desktop environment at this point. Because, yes, it is possible to do computing more efficiently than with a CLI alone, whatever the purists may say. For me, TUI tools are the sweet spot: less keystrokes, less memorizing, but also extremely hackable given that there’s no GUI to deal with.Addendum: and
fzfin the scripts! Like someone else said, this simple little tool makes so much possible.I saw
lfandnnnmentioned elsewhere and gave them a try, but they just didn’t cut it compared toranger.Same experience.
I consider ranger and fzf life changing, especially being able to get the full path of any file at my command prompt at a moment’s notice. It’s now as though navigating directories were gauche.
mc
I use broot all the time and appreciate that xplr is more plugin oriented or flexible is some ways, but don’t really feel I need more than broot so haven’t given xplr a proper try.
As you use both, would you say there’s a particular feature or task that has you reaching for xplr over broot?
xplr I probably use more (like nnn) for the tasks I would normally reach for a GUI file manager where broot I use (probably under-use) it as a fancy
treeandls- i.e. still using standard terminal commands to actually do stuff vs just moving things around
Never been a fan of terminal file managers, I just use
exaandcd. Alsozfor directory jumping.midnight commander, especially if i need to delete files/dirs with ‘-’ and non-ascii characters. i do it without thinking.
I use xplr and I love it!
If you like vim keybindings check out
ranger. It’s nice.Mostly ranger.
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