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ranger

Terminal file manager with VI key bindings. It provides a minimalistic and nice curses interface with a view on the directory hierarchy. The secondary task of ranger is to psychically guess which program you want to use for opening particular files.

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  • Mac
  • Linux
  • BSD
  • Cygwin
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Features

Properties

  1.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  Command line interface
  2.  Tui
  3.  Console-based
  4.  Multi Column View
  5.  Vim Key Mapping
  6.  File Renaming
  7.  Miller columns

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Comments and Reviews

   
Top Positive Comment
Deviated
1

I love column view. The only problems I had with Finder icon Finder were: White back ground, bothered my eyes, Width of columns in "as Columns" view. Ranger has solved them for me.

[Edited by Deviated, May 30]

apranaxfort
0

Super easy to create your own commands. Lets say you want to open folder in VS code. Just write ":alias code code %d" to create :code command then next time you write :code it opens the folder in VS code.

RemovedUser
0

Best CLI based file manger!

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Lunatica
0

very good functionally-wise and very good defaults, but, considering this is a file manager for the terminal, performance is horrible which will cause the user a high level of frustration.

paulc
0

Official web site now at https://ranger.github.io/

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What is ranger?

Terminal file manager with VI key bindings. It provides a minimalistic and nice curses interface with a view on the directory hierarchy. The secondary task of ranger is to psychically guess which program you want to use for opening particular files.

Design Goals

  • An easily maintainable file manager in a high level language
  • A quick way to switch directories and browse the file system
  • Keep it small but useful, do one thing and do it well
  • Console based, with smooth integration into the unix shell

Features

  • UTF-8 Support (if your Python copy supports it)
  • Multi-column display
  • Preview of the selected file/directory
  • Common file operations (create/chmod/copy/delete/...)
  • Renaming multiple files at once
  • VIM-like console and hotkeys
  • Automatically determine file types and run them with the correct programs
  • Change the directory of your shell after exiting ranger
  • Tabs, Bookmarks, Mouse support

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GitHub repository

  •  17,404 Stars
  •  942 Forks
  •  896 Open Issues
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