ranger and I have nothing but praise for it. That’s as a Linux user of 15 years, formerly a bit of a skeptic about the use of such a tool. I use it not just as a file manager but as a platform for launching scripts and GUI programs via key bindings. I’ve pretty much turned it into a TUI desktop environment at this point. Because, yes, it is possible to do computing more efficiently than with a CLI alone, whatever the purists may say. For me, TUI tools are the sweet spot: less keystrokes, less memorizing, but also extremely hackable given that there’s no GUI to deal with.

Addendum: and fzf in the scripts! Like someone else said, this simple little tool makes so much possible.

ranger is another good one. I very rarely end up using a terminal file manager though.

lf is like ranger, but also very fast https://github.com/gokcehan/lf

Never been a fan of terminal file managers, I just use exa and cd. Also z for directory jumping.

I generally I only do simple operations on the command line. A few cp, mv, ls… If I am doing much more than that I open a GUI manager.

I consider ranger and fzf life changing, especially being able to get the full path of any file at my command prompt at a moment’s notice. It’s now as though navigating directories were gauche.

I’ve tried a bunch like ranger, lf, vifm, sfm and even some different ones like clifm. I always come back to nnn though. Nothing beats its speed and config options.

@theodore Midnight Commander

I use xplr and I love it!

I used to use nnn but I’ve recently fallen in love with xplr but honestly about 90% of the time I just use ls, cp and mv (although I sometimes also use broot as well).

I use the terminal to manage files. That’s all

Ranger, mostly for bulk renaming

Coreutils, rsync. In more complex scenarios zmv from zsh.

Yes, I almost not use any GUI to manage my files.

If you like vim keybindings check out ranger. It’s nice.

Mostly ranger.