Ranger is a console file manager with VI key bindings.
It is developed by Roman Zimbelmann and licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. It provides a minimalistic and nice curses interface with a view on the directory hierarchy. It ships with “rifle”, a file launcher that is good at automatically finding out which program to use for what file type.
If you’re on an Ubuntu-derived distro, you should be able to get it with:
[email protected]# sudo apt-get install ranger
What does ranger do? Once installed, type ranger in the command line and your terminal will transform into an interface that makes it easy to navigate your entire filesystem using just a keyboard (though you can use your mouse too, if you want).
Start Ranger en exit, to allow ranger create the directory structure and manage the configuration files.
[email protected]# ranger
Press the Q to exit the program
When the configuration are created, we can copy its configuration files with the following command:
[email protected]# ranger --copy-config=all
If you want to change the configuration files, you can find them in ~/.config/ranger
