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Fortress – file explorer with git niceties

December 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, TUI, Utilities

Fortress is a command-line file explorer written in modern Fortran with fzf integration and git binds for fast staging and committing.

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17 Best Free and Open Source Linux TUI File Explorers

January 17, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Roundup

A terminal UI based (TUI) file explorer is software which lets you explore the file system. We recommend the best open source options.

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File Managers

CHADTree – file explorer for Neovim

January 12, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

CHADTree is a file manager / file explorer for Neovim.

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NERDTree – tree explorer plugin for Vim

January 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity

NERDTree is a file system explorer for the Vim editor. It’s free and open source software written in VimL.

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vim-fern – asynchronous tree viewer

January 9, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

vim-fern is a general purpose asynchronous tree viewer written in VimL.

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StygianSift – terminal file explorer

January 8, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

StygianSift will navigate you through the rivers of data and forests of directories with unparalleled ease.

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File Managers

kupo – terminal file browser

January 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

kupo is a terminal file browser written in Python.

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nvim-tree – file explorer for Neovim

January 5, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

nvim-tree.lua is a file explorer / filesystem tree view plugin for Neovim. It’s written in Lua.

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xplr – hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer

January 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

xplr is a terminal UI based file explorer that aims to increase your terminal productivity. It’s written in Rust.

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browsr – file explorer in your terminal

January 3, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

browsr is a a pleasant file explorer in your terminal supporting all filesystems.

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Rust-Traverse – terminal based file explorer

January 2, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

Rust-Traverse is a terminal based file explorer. It is inspired by the NNN file manager. It uses Ratatui for the terminal UI.

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faint – extensible TUI fuzzy file explorer

December 31, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

faint is a fuzzy file explorer for the CLI that supports various extensible features.

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transgender – minimalistic terminal file explorer

December 31, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

transgender is a minimalistic TUI file explorer with minimal dependencies, written by a Ranger hater.

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fex – command-line file explorer prioritizing quick navigation

December 29, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

fex is a command-line file explorer inspired by Vim, exa and fzf, built with quick exploration and navigation in mind.

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tere – terminal file explorer

December 28, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

tere is a terminal file explorer. It is a faster alternative to using cd and ls to browse folders in your terminal.

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File Managers

Treemacs – tree layout file explorer for Emacs

December 28, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

Treemacs is a file and project explorer similar to NeoTree or vim’s NerdTree, but largely inspired by the Project Explorer in Eclipse.

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Hop – terminal based file explorer

December 23, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Productivity, Utilities

Hop is a terminal based file explorer designed to be fast, simple and user friendly. Hop runs on any operating system.

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