Which is Best TUI file manager

• vifm

  35 2,633 9.5 C

  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.

  

you could try vifm: https://github.com/vifm/vifm

• nnn

  200 18,170 8.1 C

  n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager

nnn https://github.com/jarun/nnn

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• lf

  108 7,193 8.9 Go

  Terminal file manager

LF. Has vi keybindings like ranger but faster and with async image preview. You may also need this or ranger's rifle as file opener

• jaro

  5 66 1.1 Scheme

  a highly customizable xdg-open alternative

LF. Has vi keybindings like ranger but faster and with async image preview. You may also need this or ranger's rifle as file opener

• xplr

  104 3,928 8.0 Rust

  A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer

I use xplr and like it very much.

• ranger

  165 14,889 6.5 Python

  A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console

  

I ended up using ranger-fm after evaluating a bunch of TUI file managers. I ended up picking ranger because it I can install it via pip from PyPI on any machine with a decently recent version of Python 3 and venv.

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