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File Managers

Rat Commander – feature-rich two-panel file manager

October 5, 2026 Steve Emms Productivity, TUI

Rat Commander is a feature-rich two-panel file manager with built-in viewers, editing, archives, remote access, Git tools and more.

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kodbox – self-hosted file management and team collaboration

May 6, 2026 Steve Emms Productivity, Web Apps

kodbox provides a self-hosted workspace with multi-cloud storage, document previews, editing, version history and collaboration.

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iris – config-driven file organizer

January 6, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

iris helps you sort and organize your messy folders automatically using defined rules. It’s written in Rust.

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Tyr – intelligent file organization powered by machine learning

December 11, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Tyr is a fast file organizer built in Rust that automatically categorizes and groups your files.

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git-annex – manage large files across Git repositories

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

git-annex manages large files outside Git history, tracking copies across local drives, servers and cloud storage with safety policies.

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git-lfs – Git extension for managing large files

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

Git LFS manages large binary files in Git repositories using pointers, remote object storage and selective downloads to reduce clone size.

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Qt File Managers Roundup: Excellent Ways to Manage your Filesystem

February 25, 2019 Steve Emms Desktop, Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

It makes sense to use Qt based software with KDE. Benefits include memory savings, and better integration with the KDE desktop. However, if you prefer other desktop environments, these Qt file managers still work admirably. We review 15 Qt file managers.

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Essential System Tools: QDirStat – Excellent Qt-based directory statistics

February 20, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software

QDirStat is an open source graphical application to show where your disk space has gone and to help you to clean up the mess. It fully merits its inclusion in our Essential System Tools feature.

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System Administration

Essential System Tools: fdupes – find or delete duplicate files

January 4, 2019 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, System Software, Utilities

fdupes finds duplicate files in the given set of directories and sub-directories. It recognizes duplicates by comparing MD5 signature of files followed by a byte-to-byte comparison. The utility offers a lot of options to list, delete and replace files.

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Midnight Commander

5 Top Console Linux File Managers

December 2, 2017 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 5 high quality console based free file managers. Hopefully, there will be something of interest for anyone who wishes to revel in the power of the command-line.

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