jarun/nnn
Nnn
This project is a keyboard-driven terminal file manager designed for efficient navigation and manipulation of local and remote filesystems. It functions as both a standalone console file explorer and a versatile file picker, allowing users to select paths and pass them to external shell commands or system utilities for automated workflows.
The application distinguishes itself through a highly modular architecture that supports compile-time feature flagging and static binary compilation, ensuring a minimal memory footprint and portability across environments. Users can extend its core functionality through a plugin system and customize the interface with specific color schemes, file icons, and remappable keyboard shortcuts. It also maintains multi-context workspaces and persistent session states, enabling users to manage concurrent directory views and resume work seamlessly.
Beyond basic navigation, the tool provides a comprehensive suite of file management capabilities, including batch processing, regex-based searching, and archive mounting. It integrates with the host operating system through clipboard support and file association management, while offering real-time feedback for long-running file operations.
The software is distributed as a C-based utility that can be compiled with custom resource optimizations to suit specific system requirements.
Features
- Terminal File Managers - Provides a keyboard-driven terminal interface for efficient navigation and management of local and remote filesystems.
- File Explorers - Provides a lightweight console-based file explorer for managing local and remote filesystems.
- File Selection Pickers - Functions as a versatile file picker that passes selected paths to external shell commands.
- File System Navigators - Provides keyboard-driven navigation across local and remote filesystems with multi-context support.
- Remote File System Mounts - Mounts and interacts with remote storage locations as if they were local directories to manage files across network connections.
- File System Operations - Supports standard file system operations like creation, deletion, and modification directly from the terminal.
- Terminal-Based Pickers - Functions as a versatile file picker that selects paths and outputs them to other programs or standard output.
- File Managers - Terminal file manager with Vim-like controls.
- Utilitare CLI - Fast and feature-packed file manager.
- Command Line Tools - Fast and feature-rich terminal file manager.
- File Management - File browser and disk usage analyzer with excellent desktop integration.
- File Managers - Unorthodox terminal file manager.
- Terminal Productivity - File browser and disk usage analyzer.
- Terminal Utilities - Fast and feature-rich terminal file manager.
- File Managers - Fast and lightweight terminal file browser with desktop integration.
- File Processing Utilities - Performs repetitive operations like renaming, moving, or copying multiple files simultaneously through a streamlined terminal-based interface.
- Command Line Utilities - Selects files and passes their paths to external scripts or system utilities to automate complex data processing tasks.
- Workspace Session Managers - Persists workspace states and settings to disk to allow seamless resumption of work.
- Multi-Pane Terminal Managers - Maintains multiple independent directory views in separate tabs or panes for concurrent work.
- Terminal Rendering Engines - Uses low-level character cell manipulation to draw the interface directly within a terminal emulator window.
- Filesystem Abstractions - Maps local and remote storage paths into a unified interface to perform standard operations regardless of the underlying mount.
- Bulk File Renamers - Provides batch renaming capabilities by allowing users to edit file lists in a text editor.
- Directory Navigation Shortcuts - Saves directory locations as bookmarks for rapid navigation to frequently used folders.
- File Search Utilities - Enables instant, regex-based searching within directories to quickly locate files.
- External Command Executors - Enables users to trigger external shell commands or scripts directly from the file manager interface.
- File Previewers - Displays file content or metadata previews in a secondary window during navigation.
- Keyboard Shortcut Mappings - Allows users to remap input commands to preferred keys and provides validation tools to detect potential key binding collisions.
- Terminal Workflow Customizations - Tailors the visual appearance and keyboard shortcuts of a command-line environment to match specific user preferences and workflows.
- Context-Aware State Engines - Maintains independent directory navigation stacks and selection buffers to allow concurrent operations across multiple workspaces.
- Plugin-Based Architectures - Loads external scripts dynamically at runtime to perform specialized tasks by passing file paths through environment variables.
- Selection Buffers - Collects files from multiple directories into a shared buffer for simultaneous batch processing.
- Archive Management - Mounts archive files as directories to allow direct manipulation of their contents.
- Integrated File Editing - Opens files in preferred terminal or graphical applications for direct editing.
- Static Compilation Toolchains - Compiles the application with all dependencies included to ensure portability across different environments without requiring external shared libraries.
- Process and Task Orchestration - Spawns external shell processes to handle file operations and user-defined scripts via standard input and output streams.
- Terminal Color Schemes - Enables users to define custom color mappings for different file types and attributes to improve visual distinction.
- Compile-Time Feature Flags - Uses preprocessor directives to include or exclude specific functionality during the build process for binary optimization.
- Interface Appearance Customization - Provides options to customize the interface with color schemes, file-specific indicators, and status bar information to reflect file states.
