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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- Free
- Open Source (GPL-3.0)
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- Mac
- Linux
- BSD
- Cygwin
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I'm a big fan of Linux and have been using it consistently as my desktop daily driver since 2012. In that time, I've used a lot of software and these are the picks I come back to consistently. I don't live in the terminal with a tiling window manager, but also don't fear the command line.
There are lots of opinions and lists for terminal-centric Linux operators, hard core developers, and free software enthusiasts, but I haven't seen many for casual users just looking to do boring stuff. This is my humble list which includes practical applications, system tools to keep things running, and details on terminal specific software I use.
I'm not going to list Linux distros here because no matter what I am using because nearly all of these can be found in Fedora, Debian, and Arch derived distros (which is most beginner-friendly distros).
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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/