Midnight Commander is MIA; any command line based twin pane file manager recommendations?

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  • goful

    Goful is a CUI file manager written in Go.

  • Goful

  • lf

    Terminal file manager

  • lf

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  • nnn

    n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager

  • nnn

  • xplr

    A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer

  • xplr

  • gdu

    Fast disk usage analyzer with console interface written in Go

  • gdu - Just a very fast and cool disk usage explorer

  • btop

    A monitor of resources

  • btop++ - Very cool system monitor

  • fd

    A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'

  • fd - A fast and user-friendly alternative for find

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • gotop

    Discontinued A terminal based graphical activity monitor inspired by gtop and vtop

  • gotop - Another system monitoring tool, written in Go

  • bat

    A cat(1) clone with wings.

  • bat - A cat clone with wings, very nice file catter

  • ncdu

    inofficial fork of "NCurses Disk Usage"

  • ncdu - Ncurses disk usage, but I like gdu better

  • exa

    A modern replacement for ‘ls’.

  • exa - Very nice ls replacement with cool colors and many options

  • ripgrep

    ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore

  • ripgrep - Fast grep replacement with nice features

  • hgrep

    Grep with human-friendly search results

  • hgrep - Another nicer replacement of grep

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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