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A free, open-source, lightweight, Terminal-based, and fast file manager for GNU/Linux systems. #File Manager  #File Browser  #File Explorer  #File  #Explorer  #Manager  

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nnn is a free and open-source file management utility that's extremely lightweight and very fast as it has a small footprint and features highly optimized code. It can be integrated into any desktop environment or window manager with ease and its features can be expended through scripts.

Dubbed by its developers as the “snappy file manager for ninjas,” nnn is not only easily accessible from the command-line due to its name, but it’s super fast as the binary is around 50KB in size and the entire application uses about 3.5MB RAM. Of course, that’s only possible because it runs in the terminal.

Despite being a command-line utility, nnn doesn’t lack in features. It comes with three modes, detail view, disk usage analyzer, and file picker, support for bookmarks and keyboard shortcuts, sorting by file name, size, and modification time, instant filtering with search-as-you-type, substring and regex mach, as well as subtree search.

nnn also features support for mime types so you can open certain files in specific apps, support for creating, listing, and extracting archives, Unicode support, batch rename, support for creating and renaming files and directories, link selection, and the ability to view detailed file and media information.

Probably the best thing about nnn is that it’s expendable with scripts, so you can have even more features than the ones that are already there by default. There’s a scripts repository in place at https://github.com/jarun/nnn/tree/master/user-scripts for you to expend its abilities, and it’s also possible to create your own scripts.

nnn is an independent application capable of running on virtually any GNU/Linux distribution there is, as well as on macOS, BSD, Termux on Android, Raspberry Pi boards, Cygwin, and even the Linux Subsystem for Windows. It also works seamlessly with any desktop environment or window manager.

What's new in nnn 4.9:

  • nnn v4.9 Elixir:
  • config option NNN_ARCHMNT to specify archive mounter utility
  • key ^y to jump to next young file
  • filter adjustment when opening context from plugin
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