What file manager do you use?

[hruodr]

Well, some person are commenting about previews.
Does it mean something like tab preview on www/firefox, or actually a "viewer" that shows images/pages before editing?

To see thumbnails of all files containing images (jpeg, giff, png, etc) in a directory.

 

[freethread]

I use Midnight Commander and Gnome Commander. You can complete, in seconds, any file-related task that requires some effort and a mouse in single-pane managers. Also, I often use MC remotely, over Telnet.

On Windows: Total Commander and ... Norton Commander. Yes, it still works on 64-bit Win10.

There is a port of Midnight Commander in Windows. https://github.com/adamyg/mcwin32: winget install GNU.MidnightCommander to not change mind when switch OSs.

 

[JohnK]

File manager (I don't have a GUI on my servers): misc/vifm

The Vim editor has remote reading/writing; you may want to check if your editor also has that ability.

 

[chungs]

Have a look at "worker", maybe a bit bigger than xfe but well worth it.

I get "Segmentation fault (core dumped) when trying to run it for some reason from pkg

 

[Crivens]

I get "Segmentation fault (core dumped) when trying to run it for some reason from pkg

Yikes, yes. I build it from ports for that reason and skip one knob. The symbols in the backtrace will tell you which one, I'm currently at $DAYJOB, so I can't look myself right now.

 

[vermaden]

Caja (from MATE) + Thunar (from XFCE).

Thunar mostly for its Bulk Rename feature.

 

[Geezer]

Yikes, yes. I build it from ports for that reason and skip one knob. The symbols in the backtrace will tell you which one, I'm currently at $DAYJOB, so I can't look myself right now.

I built it from ports in poudriere and still got segmentation fault

 

[johnjohn]

Hello everyone, not that anyone cares but i use sh shell mostly I like the shell until i get tired of typing.

I rarely use a DE on FreeBSD but i have xfce4 installed. I use Thunar in xfce4.

I also have an OpenBox, Compton, LXpanel setup where i use XFE or PCManFM.

 

[Crivens]

I built it from ports in poudriere and still got segmentation fault

You need to remove one knob, but I cannot tell which one without looking.

 

[astyle]

You need to remove one knob, but I cannot tell which one without looking.

oh, and maybe file a PR with the FreeBSD bugzilla while you're at it?

 

[freezr]

I bounce from Thunar and MC...

 

[Pap]

x11-fm/worker is a great file manager. It may look a bit old, but it is full of features, and can easily can put more "modern" file managers into shame. FreeBSD has a relatively recent version available.
And, if you are not afraid of Terminal-based apps (you shouldn't), give misc/mc a try. You will be surprised how powerful it is.

I use both for years and, even though I try other file managers out of curiosity, I never found one that comes even remotely close to them in terms of functionality.

 

[fernandel]

misc/mc after stopped using OS/2 and switch to Linux...

 

[T-Aoki]

misc/mc after stopped using OS/2 and switch to Linux...

OS/2 had KL which was inspired by FD, as Atsushi IDEI, the original author of FD, had no intention to port his FD from DOS to OS/2, although he was a user of OS/2.
"Use WPS!" He said when I requested him to port for native OS/2 rather than running in MVDM.
Thankfully, other developers ported (re-implemented in C instead of asm) FD as fd-clone to Unix world and this is the origin of shells/fd.

 

[DonK]

xfe is my file manager.

 

[kent_dorfman766]

What file manager do you use?​

xterm, find, ls, cp, mv, rm, du, df

 

[hruodr]

xterm, find, ls, cp, mv, rm, du, df

You forgot scp, rsync.

 

[T-Aoki]

You forgot scp, rsync.

And sysutils/clone and/or net/rclone.

 

[jbo@]

alias rm='rm -rf'

 

[nxjoseph]

alias rm='rm -rf'

 

[ralphbsz]

Thunar mostly for its Bulk Rename feature.

Bulk rename, or other bulk operations that are too complex for off-the-cuff shell scripts: "ls -1 > /tmp/foo". Then edit /tmp/foo using an editor that can do macros, and convert every line (every file name) into the appropriate shell command(s). Finally, execute it with ". /tmp/foo".

 

[Charlie_]

Bulk rename, or other bulk operations that are too complex for off-the-cuff shell scripts: "ls -1 > /tmp/foo". Then edit /tmp/foo using an editor that can do macros, and convert every line (every file name) into the appropriate shell command(s). Finally, execute it with ". /tmp/foo".

sysutils/renameutils
- qmv ("quick move") allows a bunch of file names to be edited in a text editor;
qmv(1)

       The qmv program allows files to be renamed by editing their names in
       any text editor. By changing a letter in a text document, a letter in a
       filename can be changed. Since the files are listed after each other,
       common changes can be made more quickly.