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What's the point of terminal file managers (mc, ranger, nnn, etc)? (programming.dev)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Who are these for? People who use the terminal but don't like running shell commands?

OK sorry for throwing shade. If you use one of these, honestly, what features do you use that make it worthwhile?

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[–] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's really annoying navigating a filesystem in the shell.

Either you remember exactly where a file is located, have a reference, or you're going to be doing a lot of "ls, cd, ls, cd".

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Either you remember exactly where a file is located, have a reference, or you’re going to be doing a lot of “ls, cd, ls, cd”.

    You do know tools like find and locate are a thing? If anything it is the graphical tools that do not have a lot of flexibility here.

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