I use the terminal to manage files. That's all
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.
I use the terminal to manage files. That's all
ranger
and 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 fzf
in the scripts! Like someone else said, this simple little tool makes so much possible.
I saw lf
and nnn
mentioned elsewhere and gave them a try, but they just didn't cut it compared to ranger
.
Same experience.
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 tree
and ls
- i.e. still using standard terminal commands to actually do stuff vs just moving things around
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.
Never been a fan of terminal file managers, I just use exa
and cd
. Also z
for directory jumping.
midnight commander, especially if i need to delete files/dirs with '-' and non-ascii characters. i do it without thinking.
mc
Most of the time I just use the commandline stuff (cd ls mv rm etc.) but I have vifm installed if I really want one
Mostly ranger.
I use xplr and I love it!
dired
inside emacsclient -t
π
If you like vim keybindings check out ranger
. Itβs nice.
I've tried a bunch like ranger, lf, vifm, sfm and even some different ones like clifm. I always come back to nnn though. Nothing beats its speed and config options.
Midnight Commander
In this case, however, it cannot be said that I am using it as intended. The AUR helper I use, aurutils, uses Vifm to display the respective PKBUILD file during an update, for example.
zsh
Occasionally oil for neovim.
Coreutils, rsync. In more complex scenarios zmv from zsh.
Yes, I almost not use any GUI to manage my files.
Ranger, mostly for bulk renaming
I mostly use a gui file manager, but when I do use a terminal based one I use ranger. Haven't tried others, I just like this one.
I started with MC, went to nnn for a few months, then I moved to vifm.
nnn
master race
I had straight up just never considered that terminal file explorers existed. This post has opened my eyes, and so here is my Saved comment. (Maybe one day, kbin will implement saving without commenting...)
Iβve tried ranger for some while, pretty neat, but I havenβt tried other terminal file mangers tho
Ranger with mount script.
(I don't want drives to to be auto-mounted.)
lf is like ranger, but also very fast https://github.com/gokcehan/lf
I used
ranger
previously, but I'm anlf
convert. It was a bit difficult to set some things up, but it's blazing fast and there are things about it I prefer.There is also joshuto, another ranger clone, written in rust.
https://github.com/kamiyaa/joshuto