GitHub - sxyazi/yazi: 💥 Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O.
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💥 Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O. - sxyazi/yazi

Can’t imagine using my system without this.

  • @[email protected]
    1•3 hours ago

    I binned my copies of ranger and nnn when I found this last year. Its stellar.

    Diskonaut is the only other one that stuck, of the new CLI file managers. hunting lost files from a recovered hard drive was a lot easier with directory visualization for whatever reason.

    • @[email protected]
      1•53 minutes ago

      What are your primary use cases for Yazi? I’m trying to see if it’ll fit into my workflow.

      I’ve been experimenting with it on my MacBook Pro. When I navigate to a few Go projects I’m working on, syntax highlighting only seems to be available in the file preview. After that, it appears to just open in plain Vi.

      At work, I use Windows and primarily code in C#.

      Is Yazi more geared towards file management?

  • @[email protected]English
    2•5 hours ago

    it gained 14k+ stars on github in a year (development started in 2023 july).

    isn’t it a bit suspicious?

    maybe it’s nothing, but this just caught my eye

    • @[email protected]OP
      8•10 hours ago

      Yes. I switched to yazi from ranger. File previews is so much better. Image previews dont hog up ram or crash your manager. It has everything and more like opening encrypted archives, plugin support, themes. I use 2 plugins, one to compress files and the other to display present directory size.

      It’s not just the features but the app itself is magnificent. I have never seen such a goid looking tui app.

      • Eager EagleEnglish
        1•7 hours ago

        Same, ranger was painfully slow at times. For some reason it would take multiple seconds to start on a few machines I connected it to.

  • @asapEnglish
    10•11 hours ago

    As someone new to Linux, what would be a few reasons that you prefer this to using the built-in GUI file browser?

    • @[email protected]
      1•50 minutes ago

      I wouldn’t bother unless you find yourself doing more through the terminal than through GUIs.

      I don’t have a built-in file browser (not using a DE, just i3 window manager), so I use ranger and pure GNU coreutils commands mostly but I still find myself missing the drag-and-drop features that FreeDesktop integration provides for stuff like nautilus.

    • Eager EagleEnglish
      11•8 hours ago

      I can’t believe no one mentioned this, but: remote access.

      I spend most of my day connected to machines via SSH and yazi offers a great UX with file previews and all. Using kitty I even get image previews in the terminal.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•21 minutes ago

        remote access

        To be fair, X11 forwarding is a straightforward thing, bearing in mind any security/performance/administrative restrictions which may apply to your situation.

        Alternatively, SSHFS can be used to mount a remote directory locally.

    • @[email protected]OP
      14•11 hours ago

      I can navigate without using my mouse. It’s faster for me. You can create tabs, copy and paste files, extract compressed files, run commands, and so much more without lofting my hand. My favorite feature is the ability to preview files without even opening them. I’m relatively new to linux too.

    • @[email protected]English
      6•10 hours ago

      Download 5 seasons of some show from multiple sources or some artist’s entire discography, and want to normalize all the file names? It is way easier in the terminal.

      I’ll check this out, but I use https://github.com/stevearc/oil.nvim for such tasks as I have nvim’s full sweet of editor commands to rename all the files way faster than I could in a GUI. I’m sure there are GUI apps to perform a similar task, but I already know how to use nvim.

    • @[email protected]English
      5•11 hours ago

      You can probably do some more advance tasks via CLI. Also usually lists information faster. But honestly you will be overall fine with GUI a majority of the time.

      Some people just like being in the terminal.

    • Chewy
      4•11 hours ago
      • Terminal file manager are useful on a server over ssh.
      • ripgrep and fd support is better than any GUI file manager find and replace.
      • Some people like using vim keybindings
      • The three panel view is really useful. On the left is the parent folder, the middle the current and on the right a preview, e.g. the selected folder or the contents of a picture or a text file. It’s faster to navigate and pop back into the shell.