Long time nnn user right now. But interested in hearing some other people suggestions in case I missed something more interesting.
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ranger is another good one. I very rarely end up using a terminal file manager though.
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.
I use the terminal to manage files. That’s all
@theodore Midnight Commander
Any spesific reason on choosing it?
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.
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.
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.
midnight commander, especially if i need to delete files/dirs with ‘-’ and non-ascii characters. i do it without thinking.
Never been a fan of terminal file managers, I just use
exaandcd. Alsozfor directory jumping.I use xplr and I love it!
diredinsideemacsclient -t😁Mostly ranger.
lf is like ranger, but also very fast https://github.com/gokcehan/lf
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.There is also joshuto, another ranger clone, written in rust.
zshOccasionally oil for neovim.
Ranger, mostly for bulk renaming
Midnight Commander
