ranger
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Terminal file manager with VI key bindings. It provides a minimalistic and nice curses interface with a view on the directory hierarchy. The secondary task of ranger is to psychically guess which program you want to use for opening particular files.
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What is ranger?
Terminal file manager with VI key bindings. It provides a minimalistic and nice curses interface with a view on the directory hierarchy. The secondary task of ranger is to psychically guess which program you want to use for opening particular files.
Design Goals
- An easily maintainable file manager in a high level language
- A quick way to switch directories and browse the file system
- Keep it small but useful, do one thing and do it well
- Console based, with smooth integration into the unix shell
Features
- UTF-8 Support (if your Python copy supports it)
- Multi-column display
- Preview of the selected file/directory
- Common file operations (create/chmod/copy/delete/...)
- Renaming multiple files at once
- VIM-like console and hotkeys
- Automatically determine file types and run them with the correct programs
- Change the directory of your shell after exiting ranger
- Tabs, Bookmarks, Mouse support
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Comments and Reviews
I love column view. The only problems I had with
Finder were:
White back ground, bothered my eyes,
Width of columns in "as Columns" view.
Ranger has solved them for me.
[Edited by Deviated, May 30]
Super easy to create your own commands. Lets say you want to open folder in VS code. Just write ":alias code code %d" to create :code command then next time you write :code it opens the folder in VS code.
Best CLI based file manger!
very good functionally-wise and very good defaults, but, considering this is a file manager for the terminal, performance is horrible which will cause the user a high level of frustration.
Official web site now at https://ranger.github.io/