Attention

Project has been moved here:

https://gitlab.com/dron2065/mfm

Abstract

Minimal File Manager is a little console program written in C. POSIX only.

Building

This program has no dependencies. For building just type:

make

or, if there is no make in your system:

cc *.c -o mfm -I. -O2

Then, you can put executable mfm to any $PATH directory.

Usage

Run program:

mfm [dir1 [dir2 [...]]]

All dirs will be opened in tabs (can be opened no more than ten tabs).

Controls:

• Tab - create new tab
• Ctrl+W - close current tab (quit from program with closing last tab)
• Space or Insert - select/unselect current item
• + or = - select all items in tab
• - or _ - unselect all items
• Home End - go to the start or to the end of file list
• PgUp PgDn - go up or down throw five items of file list
• Delete - delete current or selected files/directories
• Enter:
  • go to the directory;
  • open current or selected files
  • run current executable
• D - make new dir
• E - execute shell command with delay (expression %f will be replaced by current or selected file names, %%f will be replaced by %f)
• Ctrl-E - same, but without delay
• S - run shell
• R - rename file/directory
• U - update current list
• H - show/hide hidden files
• G - select directory from bookmarks and go to it
• Ctrl-G - go to any directory
• J - jump to directory item at current list
• Ctrl-J - jump to file item at current list
• C - copy all selected items at all tabs except current to the directory of current tab
• M - same way move items
• Q - quit from program

Configuration files

• $HOME/.local/etc/mfm/ext - commands to be applied for files with a certain extension. Every line in file looks like: last symbols of file name=command to be applied . Example: .mkv=mpv %f --fs . %f will be replaced with file names, %%f - by %f . Also, it's possible to specify only last symbols, then will be used last specified command;
• $HOME/.local/etc/mfm/bookmarks - some directories. Used by G command