Which file manager do you use and why?

• z.lua

  2 2,710 5.5 Lua

  :zap: A new cd command that helps you navigate faster by learning your habits.

  Me too. I like it customizability and flexibility. It's even better when combined with the ranger-plugin that come z.lua, which I have bound to cj (I used auto-jump before this, which used that binding as well).

• nnn

  46 16,395 9.4 C

  n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager

  Ever tried nnn? It's also partially inspired by ranger, but is written in C (lf is written in Go). It's also way faster than ranger. So fast, in fact, that it can list a directory 2 times faster than ls.

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• dragon

  14 1,020 0.0 C

  Drag and drop source/target for X

  I use just the terminal (with no file manager, unless you can call coreutils like cd, ls, cp, mv, ... as a file manager), and dragon for drag and drop action, for which opening a full file manager is too much lol

• broot

  13 8,677 7.3 Rust

  A new way to see and navigate directory trees : https://dystroy.org/broot

  I use broot for getting overviews of directories and the like. Everything else is ripgrep

• ripgrep

  114 37,997 9.0 Rust

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

  I use broot for getting overviews of directories and the like. Everything else is ripgrep

• joshuto

  2 2,287 8.8 Rust

  ranger-like terminal file manager written in Rust

  There is joshuto, written in Rust. Not sure if it is fully there yet..

• z

  7 15,243 0.0 Shell

  z - jump around

  Have you been using z? Can't recommend it enough!

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• ranger_udisk_menu

  0 38 1.3 Python

  This script draws menu to choose, mount and unmount drives using udisksctl and ncurses for ranger file manager

  Unrelated bonus plugin: I also really like this mounting menu/script for when I plug in a USB stick. It doesn't seem to be very well known, but it should be as I find it to be very handy. To install, follow th instructions on the GB page. You can add a binding like I did like this:

• doublecmd

  10 1,622 9.7 Pascal

  Double Commander is a free cross platform open source file manager with two panels side by side.

  

  Double Commander. I like file managers with two panels and the tool offers many features. And it supports some plugins from Total Commander.

• lf

  53 5,878 3.8 Go

  Terminal file manager

  When I started using lf it felt a bit still like work in progress but now it really looks mature and so much faster and stable than ranger.

• clifm

  33 977 0.0 C

  The shell-like, command line terminal file manager: simple, fast, extensible, and lightweight as hell

  If you feel comfortable with the CLI, then a command line file manager seems like a natural choice. In this case, you can take a look at CliFM: half-way between your shell and a terminal file manager. You can find it in the AUR too.

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