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broot
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Use Midnight Commander like a pro (2015)
Take a look at broot https://github.com/Canop/broot
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Johnny Decimal: A System to Organize Projects
A past coworker implemented a system like this. It was awful. He was the gatekeeper because the numbers and names had to be "just so" to meet his approval, and he was the most senior person on the team. He was neurotic in general and a pain to work with.
The idea of limiting yourself to a few top-level categories in a directory hierarchy and then doing the same with subdirectories makes sense, but adding numbers is a bad idea. It just creates more work, and other people have to learn your idiosyncratic nomenclature. Just give the directories good names and get on with it. Search really isn't as bad as the article suggests, especially with something like broot [1].
- Broot: A new way to look at file management written in Rust
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Antonmedv/walk: Terminal file manager
I've used a lot of the tools mentioned here in comments, but I think just for finding a directory/file broot[1] is much faster and easier than others. Though it is also quite feature rich but mostly it's just write a fuzzy search term that could even be sub-sub-directory and open, extremely quickly.
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Projectable: A TUI file manager built for projects
`broot` (https://github.com/Canop/broot) is another file manager with a curious interface that seems to fill a similar niche.
Of course, there are many other file managers to choose from (mc, ranger, nnn, lf, ....), but most of them don't show nested subdirectories by default.
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Report on platform-compliance for cargo directories
As a macOS user, it boils my brain whenever I've to type in something like ~/Library/Application Support/org.rust-lang.Cargo/config.toml. macOS users have been begging CLI tools to support XDG variables on macOS too. Setting defaults is a strong indication to the community what should be the "preferred" locations. The defaults defined in your article will invariably lead to some authors saying that if that path is good enough for cargo, then it is good enough for their tool. Even the latest draft RFC acknowledges that macOS should use XDG variables too. I've written more about this here.
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erdtree v1.2.0, a modern multi-threaded alternative to `du` and `tree` now with support for globbing, icons, and more
You may be interested in broot
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bsdutils: Alternative to GNU coreutils using software from FreeBSD
I think you’re conflating different projects.
There are projects that aim for a better user experience, with better command line interface, defaults, performance and UI. These are of course breaking changes and the programs can’t be used as drop in replacement. Some examples are
- ls => exa (https://github.com/ogham/exa)
- grep => ripgrep (https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep)
- cat => bat (https://github.com/sharkdp/bat)
- tree => broot (https://github.com/Canop/broot)
The person you’re replying to was speaking of a different project - uutils (https://github.com/uutils/coreutils). These are drop in replacements with identical interfaces (modulo bugs).
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Reading Ebooks on the Commandline
Even better broot, previously adding view verb to config:
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Is possible to configure "micro" terminal text editor with "broot" tool, to open text file with micro?
Broot: https://github.com/Canop/broot
lc
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Exa Is Deprecated
This kind of thing should probably be generalized so that any new parameter can be seamlessly woven into your `ls-like` reports.
https://github.com/c-blake/lc/blob/master/extensions/fe1 does `du`, but you could use `ffprobe` to do the run-time in hours:minutes:seconds for media files (or maybe 0sec for non-media) or numerous other things.
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Ask HN: Why did Nim not catch-on like wild fire as Rust did?
I don't know about all your other questions, but the https://github.com/c-blake/cligen CLI framework seems much lower effort / ceremony than even Rust's `argh` and is just about as old as `clap` (both started 8 years ago in 2015).
There are over 50 CLI utilities at https://github.com/c-blake/bu, many of which do something novel rather than just "re-doing ls/find/cat with a twist". While they are really more an "ls/ps construction toolkits" with some default configs to get people going, I think https://github.com/c-blake/lc and https://github.com/c-blake/procs are nicer than Rust alternatives. I mention these since you seem interested in such tools.
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Exa: An Alternative to Ls
https://github.com/c-blake/lc can do that and more; Indeed you can group "dot directories" differently than "non-dot directories". When I sat down to write `lc` I went through all of exas issues and features and included as much as I felt reasonable.
I never liked the graphical tree mode, though. I prefer packing as much information as possible into small real estate (like cell phone terminal screens).
What are some alternatives?
fzf - :cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder
sl - SL(1): Cure your bad habit of mistyping
nnn - n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager
lsd - The next gen ls command
xplr - A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer
exa - A modern replacement for ‘ls’.
zoxide - A smarter cd command. Supports all major shells.
iomrascalai - Iomrascálaí is an AI for the game of Go/Weiqi/Baduk written in Rust
lf - Terminal file manager
axiom - A 64-bit kernel implemented in Nim
voidrice - My dotfiles (deployed by LARBS)
procs - Unix process&system query&format lib&multi-command CLI in Nim