Rust-Traverse is a terminal based file explorer. It is inspired by the NNN file manager.
It uses Ratatui for the terminal UI, with Crossterm for the terminal backend.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Full CRUD operations on files and directories.
- Move and copy files and directories.
- Keyboard shortcuts for navigation and operations, to make sure you don’t have to leave the keyboard.
- Traverse directly to a directory by typing its path.
- Configurable.
- Extract tar.gz, or zip archives.
- Bookmarks for your favourite directories.
- Fuzzy finder for files in your current directory.
- Preview files in the terminal.
- Fast.
Website: github.com/dmcg310/Rust-Traverse
Support:
Developer: dmcg310
License: MIT License

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