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Is there a file manager like that? (lemmy.ml)

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Is there a terminal file manager that has good support for archives? The features I'd like are:

being able to enter archives like directories
shortcut to archive all selected files

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (4 children)

If you like terminal programs, you can give nnn a try.

https://github.com/jarun/nnn

Fast, great feature set and keybindings, and very configurable!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (3 children)

Thanks for the recommendation. Nnn is very fast and I like the text file buffer of selected files that you can edit in vim but I can't figure out how to create a new archive. It's not on the github page and I couldn't find it in the help menu you get when you press "?"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Which version do you have? I know earlier versions had constantly changing keybindings, but in v3.6 it shows z as archive. You can also use ] to open up a shell and run an arbitrary command, or write up a script to use as a plugin to archive/extract/etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

Ok sorry I forgot less searches are case sensitive and didn't try "Archive", only "archive". I have 4.0 on arch linux

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