nnn (or n³) is a full-featured terminal file manager. It’s tiny and nearly 0-config with an incredible performance.
nnn is also a du analyzer, an app launcher, a batch renamer and a file picker. The plugin repository has tons of plugins and documentation to extend the capabilities further. You can plug new functionality and play with a hotkey. There’s an independent (neo)vim plugin.
It runs smoothly on the Pi, Termux (Android), Linux, macOS, BSD, Haiku, Cygwin, WSL, across DEs and GUI utilities or a strictly CLI environment.
Black magic! :dark_sunglasses:
Load, sort, filter thousands of files instantly
Type to navigate with automatic dir selection
Select files from anywhere (not just a single dir)
Edit and preview markdown, man page, html
Open a file and auto-advance to the next
Export (filtered) list of visible files
Find files by mime-type and list in nnn
Unlimited bookmarks, plugins, commands with custom hotkeys
Write a plugin in any language you know
Configure the middle mouse click to do anything
Fuzzy search subtree and open the dir of a file
Load four dirs with custom settings at once
Notifications on cp, mv, rm completion
Auto-sync selection to system clipboard
Open text files detached in another pane/tab/window
Create files/dirs/duplicates with parents (like mkdir -p)
Toggle hidden with ., visit HOME with ~, last dir with -
Pin a frequently visited dir at runtime
Mount any cloud storage service in a few keypresses
Mount and modify archives
Filter filtered entries
Sort files by access time and inode change time
Access selection from another instance of nnn
Compile out features you don’t need
Watch matrix text fly or read fortune messages
Configure in 5 minutes!
Features
Resource sensitive
Typically needs less than 3.5MB resident memory
Works with 8-bit colors
Disk-IO sensitive (few disk reads and writes)
No FPU usage (all integer maths, even for file size)
Minimizes screen refresh with fast line redraws
Tiny binary (typically less than 100KB)
Portable
Statically-linked binary available
Language-agnostic plugins
Minimal library deps, easy to compile
Compile in/out features with make variables
No config file, minimal config with sensible defaults
Widely available on many packagers
Unicode support
Quality
Privacy-aware (no unconfirmed user data collection)
POSIX-compliant, follows Linux kernel coding style
Highly optimized, static analysis integrated code
Modes
Light (default), detail
Disk usage analyzer (block/apparent)
File picker, (neo)vim plugin
Navigation
Type-to-nav mode with dir auto-select
Contexts (aka tabs/workspaces) with custom colors
Sessions, bookmarks with hotkeys; pin and visit a dir