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<h1 align="center">nnn - <i>supercharge your productivity!</i></h1>
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<p align="center"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2n5aGqou9E"><img src="https://i.imgur.com/MPWpmos.png" /></a></p>
<p align="center"><i>type-to-nav & du (click to see demo video)</i></p>
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## Introduction
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<img align="left" src="misc/logo/logo-128x128.png">
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`nnn` (or `n³`) is a full-featured terminal file manager. It's tiny and nearly 0-config with an [incredible performance](https://github.com/jarun/nnn/wiki/Performance).
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`nnn` can analyze disk usage, batch rename, launch apps and pick files. The [plugin repository](https://github.com/jarun/nnn/tree/master/plugins#nnn-plugins) has tons of plugins and documentation to extend the capabilities further e.g. preview hovered, (un)mount disks, find & list, file/dir diff, upload files. There's an independent [(neo)vim plugin](https://github.com/mcchrish/nnn.vim).
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It runs smoothly on the Pi, [Termux](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbaauM7gUJw) (Android), Linux, macOS, BSD, Haiku, Cygwin, WSL, across DEs and GUI utilities or a strictly CLI environment.
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## Black magic! :dark_sunglasses:
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- Load, sort, filter thousands of files instantly
- Type to navigate with automatic dir selection
- Select files from anywhere (not just a single dir)
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- Never lose context - start where you quit `nnn`
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- Edit and preview markdown, man page, html
- Open a file and auto-advance to the next
- Export (filtered) list of visible files
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- find/fd/grep/ripgrep/fzf from `nnn` and list in `nnn`
- Unlimited bookmarks, plugins, cmds with custom hotkeys
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- Write a plugin in any language you know
- Configure the middle mouse click to do anything
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- Fuzzy search subtree and open a file (or its parent dir)
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- 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 <kbd>.</kbd>, visit HOME with <kbd>~</kbd>, last dir with <kbd>-</kbd>
- 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!
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## Features
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- Frugal
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- Typically needs less than 3.5MB resident memory
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- Works with 8-bit colors
- Disk-IO sensitive (few disk reads and writes)
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- No FPU usage (all integer maths, even for file size)
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- Minimizes screen refresh with fast line redraws
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- Tiny binary (typically less than 100KB)
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- Portable
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- Statically-linked binary available
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- Language-agnostic plugins
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- Minimal library deps, easy to compile
- Compile in/out features with make variables
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- 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
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- Modes
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- Light (default), detail
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- Disk usage analyzer (block/apparent)
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- File picker, (neo)vim plugin
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- Navigation
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- *Type-to-nav* mode with dir auto-select
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- Contexts (_aka_ tabs/workspaces) with custom colors
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- Sessions, bookmarks with hotkeys; pin and visit a dir
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- Remote mounts (needs sshfs, rclone)
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- Familiar shortcuts (arrows, <kbd>~</kbd>, <kbd>-</kbd>, <kbd>@</kbd>), quick reference
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- CD on quit (*easy* shell integration)
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- Auto-advance on opening files
- Search
- Instant filtering with *search-as-you-type*
- Regex (POSIX/PCRE) and string (default) filters
- Subtree search plugin to open or edit files
- Sort
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- Ordered pure numeric names by default (visit _/proc_)
- Case-insensitive version (_aka_ natural) sort
- By file name, access/change/mod (default) time, size, extension
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- Reverse sort
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- Mimes
- Open with desktop opener or specify a custom opener
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- Preview hovered files in FIFO-based previewer
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- Create, list, extract, mount (FUSE based) archives
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- Option to open all text files in EDITOR
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- Information
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- Detailed file information
- Media information plugin
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- Convenience
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- Run plugins and custom commands with hotkeys
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- FreeDesktop compliant trash (needs trash-cli)
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- Cross-dir file/all/range selection
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- Batch renamer for selection or dir
- Display a list of files from stdin
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- Copy (as), move (as), delete, archive, link selection
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- Dir updates, notification on cp, mv, rm completion
- Copy file paths to system clipboard on select
- Create (with parents), rename, duplicate (anywhere) files and dirs
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- Launch GUI apps, run commands, spawn a shell, toggle executable
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- Hovered file set as `$nnn` at prompt and spawned shell
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- Lock terminal after configurable idle timeout
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## Quickstart
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1. [Install](https://github.com/jarun/nnn/wiki/Usage#installation) `nnn` and deps (if you need any). All files are opened with the desktop opener by default.
2. Add option `-e` to your alias to open text files in `$VISUAL`/`$EDITOR`/ vi. [Open detached](https://github.com/jarun/nnn/wiki/Basic-use-cases#detached-text) if you wish.
3. Configure [cd on quit](https://github.com/jarun/nnn/wiki/Basic-use-cases#configure-cd-on-quit).
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4. [Install plugins](https://github.com/jarun/nnn/tree/master/plugins#installing-plugins).
5. Use option `-x` to copy selected file paths to system clipboard and show notis on cp, mv, rm completion.
6. For a CLI-only environment, customize and use plugin [`nuke`](https://github.com/jarun/nnn/blob/master/plugins/nuke) with option `-c` (overrides `-e`).
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Don't memorize! Arrows (or <kbd>h</kbd> <kbd>j</kbd> <kbd>k</kbd> <kbd>l</kbd>), <kbd>/</kbd>, <kbd>q</kbd> suffice. <kbd>Tab</kbd> creates, cycles contexts. <kbd>?</kbd> lists shortcuts.
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[![Wiki](https://img.shields.io/badge/RTFM-nnn%20Wiki-important?maxAge=2592000)](https://github.com/jarun/nnn/wiki)
## Developers
- [Arun Prakash Jana](https://github.com/jarun) (Copyright © 2016-2020)
- [0xACE](https://github.com/0xACE)
- [Anna Arad](https://github.com/annagrram)
- [KlzXS](https://github.com/KlzXS)
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- [Léo Villeveygoux](https://github.com/leovilok)
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- [Maxim Baz](https://github.com/maximbaz)
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- [Todd Yamakawa](https://github.com/toddyamakawa)
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- and other contributors
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Visit the [ToDo list](https://github.com/jarun/nnn/issues/594) to contribute or see the features in progress.
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## Elsewhere
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- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nnn_(file_manager))
- [ArchWiki](https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nnn)
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- [FOSSMint](https://www.fossmint.com/nnn-linux-terminal-file-browser/)
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- [gHacks Tech News](https://www.ghacks.net/2019/11/01/nnn-is-an-excellent-command-line-based-file-manager-for-linux-macos-and-bsds/)
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- Hacker News [[1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18520898)] [[2](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19850656)]
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- [It's FOSS](https://itsfoss.com/nnn-file-browser-linux/)
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- LinuxLinks [[1](https://www.linuxlinks.com/nnn-fast-and-flexible-file-manager/)] [[2](https://www.linuxlinks.com/bestconsolefilemanagers/)] [[3](https://www.linuxlinks.com/excellent-system-tools-nnn-portable-terminal-file-manager/)]
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- [Suckless Rocks](https://suckless.org/rocks/)
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- [Ubuntu Full Circle Magazine - Issue 135](https://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-135/)