TuiFile

A file explorer for your terminal, with homerow-centric navigation.

TuiFile can

• have multiple instances, one for each open directory
• display recursive directory structures
• filter files using regex
• select multiple files at once
• create new directories
• copy, move and delete
• quickly open your $TERM and $EDITOR
• add more features (open an issue with ideas if you have any)

Demo

using i3 (wm) and zellij (green border).

https://github.com/Dummi26/tuifile/assets/67615357/0b0553c9-72e5-4d38-8537-f6cc39147ab1

Controls

Global

Ctrl+Up/K -> previous Ctrl+Down/J -> next Ctrl+Left/H -> close Ctrl+Right/L -> duplicate

Normal

• Up/K or Down/J -> move selection
• Left/H -> go to parent directory
• Right/L -> go into directory
• A -> Alternate selection (toggle All)
• S -> Select or toggle current
• D -> Deselect all
• F -> focus Find/Filter bar
• N -> New directory (name taken from find/filter bar text)
• C -> Copy selected to this directory
• R -> remove selected files and directories (not recursive: also requires selecting the directories content)
• 1-9 or 0 -> set recursive depth limit (0 = infinite)
• T -> open terminal here
• E -> open this file in your editor

Find/Filter Bar

• Esc -> back & discard
• Enter -> back & filter
• Backspace -> delete
• type to enter search regex