https://github.com/hathibelagal-dev/tui-file-explorer

Just a beautiful file explorer that runs in the terminal
https://github.com/hathibelagal-dev/tui-file-explorer

c file-explorer lightweight retro terminal-based tui

Last synced: 9 months ago
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Just a beautiful file explorer that runs in the terminal

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/hathibelagal-dev/tui-file-explorer
• Owner: hathibelagal-dev
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2023-06-08T21:01:58.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2023-06-21T11:35:23.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-01-09T05:25:20.037Z (10 months ago)
• Topics: c, file-explorer, lightweight, retro, terminal-based, tui
• Language: C
• Homepage:
• Size: 83 KB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# 🗄️ tui-file-explorer

- 🖥️ A pretty file explorer that runs in the terminal. Instantly preview files in hex, determine strings present in binary files, and know file signatures. Very handy tool if you're participating in a CTF, reverse engineering stuff, or just want to be more efficient while exploring folders.

  

- 🔥 Written in pure C, so it's extremely fast and lightweight

- 🥦 The executable is just *19048 bytes*

- 🚀 **Rapidly improving**

### Screenshots

Running on Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS

![Screenshot from 2023-06-15 00-23-05](https://github.com/hathibelagal-dev/tui-file-explorer/assets/42626106/dd88cb2e-4c64-4e91-8fb4-1120c8a54fdd)

![Screenshot from 2023-06-15 00-19-40](https://github.com/hathibelagal-dev/tui-file-explorer/assets/42626106/8b573821-7083-433b-ac9b-bf17b8f18e1a)

Running inside VS Code's terminal

![Screenshot from 2023-06-15 00-23-38](https://github.com/hathibelagal-dev/tui-file-explorer/assets/42626106/50c9e48a-91e8-4684-889f-8571be6b8e1e)

### Build and Run

On Ubuntu

```bash

sudo apt install libmagic-dev

make

bin/fex

```

You can use `make fast` to create a larger, but faster, binary.

### ⌨️ Controls

**w** - go up a file

**s** - go down a file

**t** - toggle between hex and ASCII preview

**space** - select current directory

**p** - go to parent directory

**b** - go back to previous directory

**h** - go to home directory

**r** - redraw (necessary after resizing the terminal window)

**q** - quit