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rCommander

rCommander is a two-panel file manager in the tradition of Total Commander and Double Commander, written in Rust. It is built for Windows first; Linux and macOS packages ship with every release since 0.9.0.

Early development. Releases run on Windows, Linux and macOS. Every page marks a feature as planned until it ships, so "planned" disappears feature by feature.

Start here

If you want to	Read
Install it or build it from source	Installation
Find your way around	First steps
Work with files	Panels
Connect to servers	Connections
Use a terminal in a panel	Terminal
Open, pack or unpack archives	Archives
Find files, view them, rename many at once	Tools
Back up or restore your data	Backup and restore
Add a file format with a plugin, or write one	Plugins, Plugin development
Look up a key	Keyboard shortcuts
Look up a setting	Settings
Let an AI assistant drive it	MCP server

What it does

• Two panels, keyboard first. Tabs with folder history and a directory hotlist, column and brief views, sorting, selection with Ins and Space, quick search, quick filter and a command line, Explorer's icons and context menu, F-key operations (F3 view … F8 delete) through a background queue with progress, conflict handling and a queue window, drag and drop with the Explorer, and a command palette (Ctrl+Shift+P). In the current build.
• Tools. File search (Alt+F7) and the branch view (Ctrl+B), the Lister (F3) and Quick View (Ctrl+Q), multi-rename (Ctrl+M), compare by content and synchronize directories, checksums, split and combine, properties and attributes, links, occupied space. In the current build.
• Archives as folders. zip, 7z and tar archives opened in the panel, tested, extracted and packed. In the current build.
• A terminal in any panel. Switch a panel from the file list to PowerShell, cmd, a WSL shell or a shell on an SSH server and back with one key; a local shell and the panel follow each other's folder. In the current build.
• WSL and servers in the drive bar. WSL distributions next to C:, SSH and FTP servers next to them. In the current build: SSH servers open in a panel over SFTP, FTP and FTPS servers over FTP.
• A small connection manager. SSH, FTP and FTPS servers in folders (Ctrl+F), passwords and keys in an encrypted vault, ssh-agent and Pageant, import from ~/.ssh/config and, under Settings → Import, from Total Commander (hotlist, tabs, connections), login scripts such as sudo -i that run when an SSH terminal opens, a command run on a server, host-key and FTPS certificate questions in the window, connection tests, quick connections on Ctrl+N. In the current build.
• Copy anywhere. Local ↔ SFTP/FTP (F5, F6), and a broken transfer resumes where it stopped, also after a restart. In the current build; server ↔ server as a stream planned for 0.6.
• One file to back up. Settings, connections and the encrypted passwords and keys live in one database that you can back up at any time, also while rCommander runs. In the current build.
• Every function for agents. A built-in MCP server lets Claude Code and other assistants use the same commands as the keyboard; anything destructive or that runs a program asks you first, in the window. In the current build, growing with every feature.

What it will not do

• No remote desktop (RDP, VNC).
• No Total Commander plugins (WCX, WDX, WFX, WLX) before 1.0.

Status

What each release changed is in the repository's CHANGELOG.md.