Long time nnn user right now. But interested in hearing some other people suggestions in case I missed something more interesting.

  • kevincox@lemmy.mlEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    I generally I only do simple operations on the command line. A few cp, mv, ls… If I am doing much more than that I open a GUI manager.

    • oo1@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      same.
      back on dos i used xtreegold for everything.
      but since moving to linux, it’s never occurred to me to use one.

      this thread has got me wondering but not sure i can see the need.

      tab completion also makes handling directory structure easy enough.

  • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    ranger and I have nothing but praise for it. That’s as a Linux user of 15 years, formerly a bit of a skeptic about the use of such a tool. I use it not just as a file manager but as a platform for launching scripts and GUI programs via key bindings. I’ve pretty much turned it into a TUI desktop environment at this point. Because, yes, it is possible to do computing more efficiently than with a CLI alone, whatever the purists may say. For me, TUI tools are the sweet spot: less keystrokes, less memorizing, but also extremely hackable given that there’s no GUI to deal with.

    Addendum: and fzf in the scripts! Like someone else said, this simple little tool makes so much possible.

  • Daeraxa@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    I used to use nnn but I’ve recently fallen in love with xplr but honestly about 90% of the time I just use ls, cp and mv (although I sometimes also use broot as well).

    • Andy@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I use broot all the time and appreciate that xplr is more plugin oriented or flexible is some ways, but don’t really feel I need more than broot so haven’t given xplr a proper try.

      As you use both, would you say there’s a particular feature or task that has you reaching for xplr over broot?

      • Daeraxa@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        xplr I probably use more (like nnn) for the tasks I would normally reach for a GUI file manager where broot I use (probably under-use) it as a fancy tree and ls - i.e. still using standard terminal commands to actually do stuff vs just moving things around

  • jbrains@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I consider ranger and fzf life changing, especially being able to get the full path of any file at my command prompt at a moment’s notice. It’s now as though navigating directories were gauche.

  • sophs@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Never been a fan of terminal file managers, I just use exa and cd. Also z for directory jumping.

  • Red1C3@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I’ve tried ranger for some while, pretty neat, but I haven’t tried other terminal file mangers tho