shfm vs rover

shfm

file manager written in posix shell (by dylanaraps)

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simple file browser for the terminal (by lecram)

file-browser File Manager Terminal

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shfm		rover
	Project
3	Mentions	3
216	Stars	325
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
almost 3 years ago	Latest Commit	over 1 year ago
Shell	Language	C
MIT License	License	-

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

shfm

Posts with mentions or reviews of shfm. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-24.

I am looking for suckless file manager(terminal based).
3 projects | /r/suckless | 24 Aug 2022
File manager written in awk
2 projects | /r/linux | 23 Jun 2021
Which console File Manage do you prefer?
1 project | /r/linuxmasterrace | 28 Dec 2020

But shfm is cool too

rover

Posts with mentions or reviews of rover. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-24.

I am looking for suckless file manager(terminal based).
3 projects | /r/suckless | 24 Aug 2022

rover
suckless terminal file manager
5 projects | /r/suckless | 26 May 2022

noice - 1k sloc small extensable file browser rover - 2k sloc, perfect tiny file browser. sfm- 3k sloc, very user friendly, very pretty, prob the best one here.
fm-nvim: Neovim plugin that lets you use your favorite terminal file managers from within Neovim
10 projects | /r/neovim | 10 Oct 2021

It it exactly what I was looking for lately! Definitely gonna use it for a while. I also wish there was support for Rover file manager: it's optimized for tiny screens and has a pretty interface.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing shfm and rover you can also consider the following projects:

bib.awk - Bibliography manager written in awk

ranger - A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console

nnn - n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager

vim-floaterm - :computer: Terminal manager for (neo)vim

fm-nvim - 🗂 Neovim plugin that lets you use your favorite terminal file managers (and fuzzy finders) from within Neovim.

xplr.vim - Fork of https://github.com/mcchrish/nnn.vim modified to work with xplr. Until xplr has its own plugin.

lf - Terminal file manager

sfm - simple file manager

vifm - Vifm is a file manager with curses interface, which provides Vim-like environment for managing objects within file systems, extended with some useful ideas from mutt.

rnvimr - Make Ranger running in a floating window to communicate with Neovim via RPC

fff - 📁 A simple file manager written in bash.

harm-less - Inspired by suckless and cat-v, this is a simple single document wiki of suckless practices and minimal software.