@theodore Midnight Commander

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 use the terminal to manage files. That’s all

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.

mc

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

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).

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

dired inside emacsclient -t 😁

zsh

Occasionally oil for neovim.

Mostly ranger.

Midnight Commander

nnn master race

I started with MC, went to nnn for a few months, then I moved to vifm.

Ranger with mount script.