CLUSTER TERMINAL-FILE-MANAGER · 54 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2015-07-07
Terminal file managers and utilities
The cluster comprises terminal-based file managers and related utilities for navigation, file operations, media browsing, archiving, and system tooling. Dated entries span from 2013-08 to 2026-07, with a mostly sparse early history and a noticeable increase in monthly entry counts starting around 2025-09. Traction leaders are rovr, yazi-nightly-bin, and Atoms, each with 0 stars.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 2 hand-coded · 18 unlabelled
Operator · 20 open source
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 20 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 21cxfiles-bin0★2 moliveopen sourceTerminal file explorer that lets users brow explore and manage files and folders from a terminal.
- 22zoxide-extra-opts0★2 moliveopen sourceA terminal directory-navigation tool that adds extra configurable options to a smarter alternative for changing directories.
- 23elio0★1 moliveopen sourceTerminal file manager with rich previews, inline images, bulk actions, and trash support for efficient file operations.
- 24xdg-desktop-portal-termfilechooser0★3 moliveopen sourceDesktop integration backend that opens a terminal-based file picker for graphical file selection requests on Linux.
- 25runa0★3 moliveopen sourceTerminal file manager that is fast and lightweight, written in Rust.
- 26machina0★4 moliveopen sourceTerminal file manager that offers file preview, git integration, archive extraction, and image display for power users.
- 27zipzap0★3 moliveopen sourceA command-line tool that lets users quickly jump between frequently used directories within a terminal shell.
- 28bt0★5 moliveopen sourceInteractive terminal file manager that displays directories in a tree structure for easy navigation and file operations.
- 29sff0★7 mostaleliveopen sourceTerminal file manager for navigating and organizing files with keyboard shortcuts.
- 30shellman-bin0★7 mostalelivehand-codedopen sourceA cross-platform terminal file manager with a text-based user interface.
- 31cdduck-bin0★4 moliveopen sourceTerminal-based file browser that navigates directories and can replace the cd command.
- 32tuifimanager0★8 mostaleliveopen sourceCross-platform terminal file manager for browsing, organizing, and manipulating files, oriented toward mobile terminal emulator users.
- 33lacy0★4 moliveopen sourceFast command-line alternative to cd for quicker terminal directory navigation.
- 34spider0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal file manager for fast and simple navigation and file operations.
- 35walk0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal-based file manager for browsing, navigating, and managing files and directories from the command line.
- 36fm-bin0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal-based file manager for navigating and managing files from the command line.
- 37rover0★4 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceTerminal-based file browser for navigating files.
- 38rclonefzf0★4 moliveopen sourceInteractive terminal tool for browsing and viewing files on rclone remotes using fzf.
- 39mime-tui0★4 moliveopen sourceTerminal UI for managing MIME type associations on a system.
- 40ripdrag0★24 daysliveopen sourceTerminal utility enabling drag-and-drop of files between the system and terminal sessions.
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