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What's the point of terminal file managers (mc, ranger, nnn, etc)? (programming.dev)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by tatterdemalion@programming.dev to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Who are these for? People who use the terminal but don't like running shell commands?

OK sorry for throwing shade. If you use one of these, honestly, what features do you use that make it worthwhile?

EDIT: Just to clarify, my point is I would almost always reach for fzf, fd, or rg before trying to manually search through a directory in a file manager.

EDIT2: A few people mentioned selecting files in a TUI. I don't find it any harder to select files using autocomplete. It might even be faster to start typing a name than it is it "scroll" through a list of files.

EDIT3: Here's a neat tool that can add some flexibility to your shell workflow: https://github.com/urbanogilson/lineselect

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[–] SigHunter@feddit.de 0 points 11 months ago

Nostalgia for those 80s and 90s kids who grew up with norton commander ;-)

[–] SomeBoyo@feddit.de 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I use them for filemanagement on my server over ssh

[–] d_k_bo@feddit.de 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What is the advantage over using SFTP with Nautilus/Dolphin/… ?

[–] SomeBoyo@feddit.de 0 points 11 months ago

It's faster. Because I have to move directorys relatively often from different drives on my server and nemo seems to be moving the files to my local machine before moving them to their right location on the server.

[–] 30p87@feddit.de 0 points 11 months ago

I only use lf in foot to have a preview of a file (image, text, pdf, ssl cert, everything with sixels, cat or the specific command) without opening or searching for that file first. It's faster to just use lf to search for a file instead of opening every single one. Other than that I find using xdg-open, cp, mv, rm etc. is faster compared to using any file manager, probably because I never learnt lf's shortcuts properly. All GUI file managers I know are bound to their DE, eg. dolphin and nautilus, which sucks with a WM.