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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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License model

  • Free • Open Source

Application types

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Linux
  • BSD
  • Cygwin
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4.4 / 5 Avg rating (5)
57likes
5comments
36alternatives
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Features

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  1.  Command line interface
  2.  Console-based
  3.  Multi Column View
  4.  Vim Key Mapping
  5.  Tui
  6.  File Renaming
  7.  Miller columns

 Tags

  • Vim
  • console-file-manager
  • tui-file-manager
  • Python
  • Console
  • curses
  • cli-file-manager
  • terminal-file-manager
  • python-app

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ranger information

  • Developed by

    Unknown

  • Licensing

    Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Free product.

  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.4

  • Alternatives

    36 alternatives listed

  • Supported Languages

    • English

AlternativeTo Categories

File Management, OS & Utilities, Development

GitHub repository

  •  16,104 Stars
  •  898 Forks
  •  889 Open Issues
  •   Updated Mar 12, 2025 
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Our users have written 5 comments and reviews about ranger, and it has gotten 57 likes

ranger was added to AlternativeTo by py2maker on Apr 5, 2012 and this page was last updated Nov 28, 2023.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Deviated
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•May 30, 2017
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I love column view. The only problems I had with Finder icon 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]

apranaxfort
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•Feb 16, 2022
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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.

RemovedUser
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•Oct 5, 2021
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Best CLI based file manger!

Lunatica
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•Dec 23, 2020
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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.

paulc
•Nov 4, 2018
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Official web site now at https://ranger.github.io/

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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