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4 super easy to use terminal file manager, improve your use efficiency!

Hello, I’m JackTian.

As a necessary tool for Linux operating system, choose a very easy to use terminal file manager, can make daily use more efficient.

Today, I would like to recommend a few open source file managers for Linux, hoping to help you.

1, NNN

NNN (or n³) is a fully functional terminal file manager. It’s small, has almost zero configuration, has incredible performance and is probably the fastest you’ve ever used! Seamless integration between DE and GUI utilities, unique navigation-ready modes, automatic selection, analyzing disk usage, batch renaming, launching applications, and selecting files.

The plug-in library holds plug-ins and files for further extensions such as features for previewing, (UN) installation disks, finding and listing, file/directory differences, and uploading files. There is a separate (NEO) vim plugin.

NNN runs on Linux, macOS, Raspberry Pi, Cygwin, Windows subsystems and Termux.

NNN also includes a variety of dark magic and features:

2, ranger

Ranger has a VI key binding console file manager with a curses interface that is simple but beautiful, a view of directory hierarchies, and a file launcher with Rifle that is good at automatically finding out which file type of program to use.

Easy to maintain a high-level language file manager, easy to switch directories and browse file systems, compact, console-based integration into a Unix shell, multi-pane view mode.

Ranger is divided into three parts:

  • Left: parent directory structure
  • Middle: The current operational directory
  • Right: all files in the current directory

3, cfiles

Cfiles is a terminal file manager with key bindings like VIM, written in C using the Ncurses library, and providing a light, fast, and minimal interface.

4, dfshow

Dfshow (Directory File Show) : It is the terminal file manager for Unix operating systems, a Unix-like rewrite of Larry Kroeker’s DF-Edit (directory file Editor) for certain applications for MS-DOS and PC-DOS systems, based on dF-Edit 2.3D released in 1986, Df-show is completely free and open source and is released under GPLv3.

DF – SHOW features:

  • Lists the files
  • Check the file
  • Edit the file
  • Copy the file
  • Create links
  • Rename file
  • Delete the file
  • Create a directory
  • Update file permissions, owners, and groups
  • Search files for a matching file
  • Start the executable

Df-show is actually a combination of two applications: SHOW and SF.

Show application (similar to the ls command) : Allows the user to view the names of files and directories on the disk and information about files, display the contents of directories, create new directories, rename and delete files/folders, update permissions, and search for files.

To view a list of contents in a directory, use the following command:

# show <directory_names>
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Parameter

: Can be accessed from any directory that the current user is accessing on the system.

Sf applications (display files) : Used to display the contents of files.

# sf <file>
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argument: It can be any file that the current user has access to on the system. If the show File utility is called without specifying a file, the user will be prompted to load the file in the application.

The resources

[1] NNN: github.com/jarun/nnn [2] Ranger: github.com/ranger/rang… [3] cfiles:github.com/mananapr/cf… [4] dfshow:github.com/roberthawdo…

conclusion

The above 4 super easy to use terminal file manager, are each has the advantages and disadvantages of practical tools. I believe that everyone in the daily work will be exposed to Linux operating system, hope that the above terminal file manager tools can have their own use, but also greatly improve the efficiency of your use of Linux operating system.

If you have more useful terminal file manager tools, you can also leave a comment on this article.