CliFM Reviews and details

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• What are the best open source tools to easily navigate directories from the command line?

  Hi. Fff, lf, clifm Won't say they're best or not, rather interesting and maybe worth looking at. Looked up for the z in termux's repos and it's called "zoxide" there. Source: 10 months ago

• I'm writing a file manager in pure BASH

  I imagine fff marks many files, handles multi-file creation/deletion, moving, copying, etc. This file manager will only be made to mark a single file which is just the last file/directory you interacted with. If you need a batch file editor or something like that, this definitely will never compete there. I just want it to be super minimal, clean and efficent. I'm kind of a bloat freak; On my system wget isn't... Source: over 1 year ago

• File manager with "select by initials" feature

  Clifm dose pretty much exactly what you are asking for: Https://github.com/leo-arch/clifm. Source: over 1 year ago

• File Management Tools for Your Favorite Shell

  Nice article! Just my five cents: I think clifm might be a useful alternative/complement in this scenario. Source: over 1 year ago

• Which terminal file manager do you use?

  Clifm is also worth mentioning because it gets the basics very right. Just hitting numbers to navigate is really cool. I personally couldn't extend it very much though. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Terminal Filemanager

  Clifm - A bit of an unusual tool. compared to the above - https://github.com/leo-arch/clifm. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Commnd line processing progrm

  It seems you're thinking of a shell. In this case, this article should be useful. You could also take a look at how real shells are implemented, for example bash or clifm (though actually a file manager, it behaves basically as a shell). Source: almost 2 years ago

• Autocomplete feature with trie in C

  Take a look at clifm's source code. It implements both TAB completions and autosuggestions (which I think is what you're looking for). A few functions you might be interested in: my_rl_getc (readline.c), tab_complete (tabcomp.c), and rl_suggestions (suggestions.c). Hope this helps. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Ideas for features of a tui file-manager

  What you are describing looks a lot like clifm. Source: about 2 years ago

• The command line file manager 1.5.1 (Willy) is out!

  CliFM is a full-featured file manager for the Unix terminal entirely based on the command line: it includes TAB-completion (with FZF support), syntax highlighting, Fish-like auto-suggestions, autocommands, autocd and auto-open, bookmarks, a built-in resource opener, a trash system, bulk rename, custom plugins support, disk usage analyzer mode, autojump-like directory jumper, icons and theming support, and more.... Source: about 2 years ago

• Is there a way of showing possible directories when cd'ing?

  You can give a try to CliFM. This file manager (entirely command-line based) provides Fish-like auto-suggestions (not only for paths), and, paired with FZF, it displays all possible completions matching the current input. It pretty much does what you're asking for. Source: about 2 years ago

• Relative Newbie to Linux Command Line

  Fzf, a multi-purpose fuzzy finder, and clifm file manager. You might also be interested in this repo. Source: about 2 years ago

• List of CLI programs (follow-up to GUI). Feel free to make suggestions.

  The TUI is a quite popular interface among file managers. Almost all of them are TUI-based indeed, with one single exception (as far as I know): clifm is entirely CLI-based (though it supports TUI stuff via extensions or plugins). Source: over 2 years ago

• File manager with image preview in the terminal?

  There are a few file managers for the terminal that can do that. CliFM is one of them. It has a very detailed Wiki explaining the whole thing. Source: over 2 years ago

• A simple but highly configurable text editor for Linux (mili v0.0.1)

  Gave it a try, and so far so good. I like it. Added to the default set of opening applications for plain text files of CliFM. Source: over 2 years ago

• Any CLI programs for daily use?

  If you do a decent amount of file managing clifm could be good for you. Source: over 2 years ago

• Command line file manager CliFM v1.3 released with tons of new features and improvements!

  CliFM 1.3 is here! What is it? Unlike most file managers out there, based on some kind of TUI interface, CliFM(link address) is entirely based on the command line: as such, it works as your usual shell, plus lots of file management functionalities. Source: over 2 years ago

• Recommendations for a general fzf --preview implementation that can show images with ueberzug?

  CliFM includes a plugin (fzfnav) able to preview PDF files, among other file types, that should work as a stand-alone script (though it depends on a second script, BFG.sh, and a little config file, BFG.cfm). It works with fzf and ueberzug. Source: over 2 years ago

• CliFM is now available in the testing repo

  I'm happy to announce that CliFM, the command line file manager, is finally available in the testing repository. Source: over 2 years ago

• shell with 2 working directories

  As to file manager, yes, all of them (as far as I know) work on top of the shell. However, this doesn't mean that all of them hide the shell behind a menu-based interface (aka curses interface, like mc or ranger, which, if I correctly understood your question, is not what you want). CliFM, for example, works on top of the shell, true, but, being a Command Line Interface File Manager, it gives you a prompt by... Source: over 2 years ago

• TAB completion with FZF. Quite cool!

  If interested, you can find the code here: https://github.com/leo-arch/clifm (tabcomp.c file, fzftab function). Source: over 2 years ago