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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I use the terminal to manage files. That’s all
Ranger, mostly for bulk renaming
Coreutils, rsync. In more complex scenarios zmv from zsh.
Yes, I almost not use any GUI to manage my files.
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…)
Ranger with mount script.
(I don’t want drives to to be auto-mounted.)
nnnmaster raceI 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
treeandls- i.e. still using standard terminal commands to actually do stuff vs just moving things around
I’ve tried ranger for some while, pretty neat, but I haven’t tried other terminal file mangers tho
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.
Lf or ranger
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.
Any spesific reason on choosing it?
Nice. Will try 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.
lf is like ranger, but also very fast https://github.com/gokcehan/lf
There is also joshuto, another ranger clone, written in rust.
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.
If you like vim keybindings check out
ranger. It’s nice.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.
