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File Managers

lf – terminal file manager written in Go

October 17, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

lf (as in “list files”) is a terminal file manager written in Go. It is heavily inspired by ranger with some missing and extra features.

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File Managers

CliFM – shell-like, command line terminal file manager

October 17, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

CliFM is a Command Line Interface File Manager: all input and interaction is performed via commands. This is its main feature and strength.

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File Managers

joshuto – Ranger-like file manager

October 17, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

joshuto is a Ranger-like file manager. joshuto does not support image previews directly.

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File Managers

fff – simple file manager

October 17, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

fff is a simple file manager. It needs bash 3.2+, coretutils, and optionally xdg-utils.

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Vifm – file manager with curses interface, which provides Vi[m]-like environment

October 17, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

Vifm is an ncurses based file manager with vi like keybindings. This application is designed as a two-pane file explorer.

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fm – terminal based file manager

October 17, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

fm is a terminal based file manager written in the Go programming language. It’s published under the MIT License.

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File Managers

fman – TUI file manager

October 17, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

fman is a TUI file manager. It uses Bubbletea, Lipgloss, Bubblezone, stickers, Chroma, and go-arg.

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File Managers

Last File Manager – Python based file manager

October 17, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

Last File Manager is a powerful, open source, console-based file manager. It has a curses interface. Written in Python.

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felix – TUI file manager with Vim-like key mapping

October 17, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

felix is a TUI file manager with Vim-like key mapping. It’s fast, simple, and easy to configure & use.

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File Managers

goful – CUI file manager

October 17, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

goful is a CUI file manager written in Go. You can customize the file manager by editing the main.go file.

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File Managers

rnr – text based file manager

October 17, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

The RNR File Manager (RNR’s Not Ranger) is a text based file manager that combines the best features of Midnight Commander and Ranger.

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File Managers

WCM Commander – mimicking the look-n-feel of Far Manager

October 17, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

The aim of WCM Commander is to create a multi-platform open source file manager mimicking the look-n-feel of Far Manager.

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File Managers

TUIFI Manager – terminal-based termux-oriented file manager

October 17, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

TUIFI Manager is a cross-platform terminal-based termux-oriented file manager (and component).

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NcFTP – FTP software

October 17, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet, TUI

NcFTP is a console based user interface File Transfer Protocol (FTP) client program. It offers a powerful and flexible interface.

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FTP

LFTP – sophisticated file transfer program

October 17, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

LFTP is a sophisticated, command line interface, file retrieving tool that supports FTP, HTTP, FISH, SFTP, HTTPS and FTPS protocols.

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FTP

termscp – feature rich terminal file transfer

October 17, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

termscp is a feature rich terminal file transfer and explorer, with support for SCP/SFTP/FTP/S3.

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FTP

cbftp – modern CLI FTP client

October 17, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

cbftp is an advanced, multi-purpose, FTP/FXP client that focuses on efficient large-scale data spreading.

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FTP

tnftp – FTP client Unix-like operating systems

October 17, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

tnftp (formerly lukemftp) is an FTP client for Unix-like operating systems. tnftp is based on the original BSD FTP client.

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FTP

Yafc – FTP client intended to be a replacement for the standard ftp program

October 17, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

Yafc is an FTP client intended to be a replacement for the standard ftp program.

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HTTP

aria2 – multi-protocol and multi-source command-line download utility

October 17, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

aria2 is a utility for downloading files.It supports downloading a file from HTTP(S)/FTP/SFTP and BitTorrent at the same time.

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