nnn - supercharge your productivity!
navigate-as-you-type & du (click to see demo video)
## Introduction
`nnn` is a full-featured terminal file manager. It's tiny and nearly 0-config with an [incredible performance](https://github.com/jarun/nnn/wiki/Performance).
`nnn` is also a du analyzer, an app launcher, a batch renamer and a file picker. The [plugin repository](https://github.com/jarun/nnn/tree/master/plugins#nnn-plugins) has tons of plugins and documentation to extend the capabilities further. You can _plug_ new functionality _and play_ with a hotkey. There's an independent [(neo)vim plugin](https://github.com/mcchrish/nnn.vim).
It runs smoothly on the Pi, [Termux](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbaauM7gUJw), Linux, macOS, BSD, Haiku, Cygwin, WSL, across DEs and GUI utilities or a strictly CLI environment.
[**Wiki**](https://github.com/jarun/nnn/wiki).
## Features
- Resource sensitive
- Typically needs less than 3.5MB resident memory
- Works with 8-bit colors
- Disk-IO sensitive (few disk reads and writes)
- No FPU usage (all integer maths, even for file size)
- Minimizes screen refresh with fast line redraws
- Tiny binary (typically less than 100KB)
- Portable
- Statically-linked binary available
- Language-agnostic plugins
- Minimal library deps, easy to compile
- Compile in/out features with make variables
- No config file, minimal config with sensible defaults
- Widely available on many packagers
- Unicode support
- Quality
- Privacy-aware (no unconfirmed user data collection)
- POSIX-compliant, follows Linux kernel coding style
- Highly optimized, static analysis integrated code
- Modes
- Light (default), detail
- Disk usage analyzer (block/apparent)
- File picker, (neo)vim plugin
- Navigation
- *Navigate-as-you-type* with dir auto-select
- Contexts (_aka_ tabs/workspaces) with custom colors
- Sessions, bookmarks with hotkeys; pin and visit a dir
- Remote mounts (needs sshfs, rclone)
- Familiar shortcuts (arrows, ~, -, @), quick reference
- CD on quit (*easy* shell integration)
- Auto-proceed on opening files
- Search
- Instant filtering with *search-as-you-type*
- Regex (POSIX/PCRE) and string (default) filters
- Subtree search plugin to open or edit files
- Sort
- Ordered pure numeric names by default (visit _/proc_)
- Case-insensitive version (_aka_ natural) sort
- By file name, modification/access time, size, extension
- Reverse sort
- Mimes
- Open with desktop opener or specify a custom app
- Create, list, extract, mount (FUSE based) archives
- Option to open all text files in EDITOR
- Information
- Detailed file information
- Media information plugin
- Convenience
- Run plugins and custom commands with hotkeys
- FreeDesktop compliant trash (needs trash-cli)
- Cross-dir file/all/range selection
- Batch renamer (feature-limited) for selection or dir
- Display a list of files from stdin
- Copy (as), move (as), delete, archive, link selection
- Dir updates, notification on cp, mv, rm completion
- Copy file paths to system clipboard on select
- Create (with parents), rename, duplicate (anywhere) files and dirs
- Launch GUI apps, run commands, spawn a shell, toggle executable
- Hovered file set as `$nnn` at prompt and spawned shell
- Lock terminal after configurable idle timeout
## Quickstart
1. Install the [utilities you may need](https://github.com/jarun/nnn#utility-dependencies) based on your regular workflows.
2. Configure [cd on quit](https://github.com/jarun/nnn/wiki/Basic-use-cases#configure-cd-on-quit).
3. To open text files in `$VISUAL` (else `$EDITOR`, fallback vi) add program option `-e` in your alias.
4. For additional functionality [install plugins](https://github.com/jarun/nnn/tree/master/plugins#installing-plugins).
5. To copy selected file paths to system clipboard and show notis on cp, mv, rm completion use option `-x`.
6. For a strictly CLI environment, customize and use plugin [`nuke`](https://github.com/jarun/nnn/blob/master/plugins/nuke).
Don't memorize! Arrows (or h j k l), /, q suffice. Tab creates, cycles contexts. ? lists shortcuts.
## Installation
No permission to install packages? Get the statically linked binary from the latest release.
#### Library dependencies
A curses library with wide char support (e.g. ncursesw), libreadline (optional) and standard libc.
#### Utility dependencies
| Dependency | Installation | Operation |
| --- | --- | --- |
| xdg-open (Linux), open(1) (macOS), cygstart
(Cygwin), open (Haiku) | base | desktop opener |
| file, coreutils (cp, mv, rm), xargs | base | file type, copy, move and remove |
| tar, (un)zip [atool/bsdtar for more formats] | base | create, list, extract bzip2, (g)zip, tar |
| archivemount, fusermount(3) | optional | mount, unmount archives |
| sshfs, [rclone](https://rclone.org/), fusermount(3) | optional | mount, unmount remotes |
| trash-cli | optional | trash files (default action: rm) |
| vlock (Linux), bashlock (macOS), lock(1) (BSD),
peaclock (Haiku) | optional | terminal locker (fallback: [cmatrix](https://github.com/abishekvashok/cmatrix)) |
| advcpmv (Linux) ([integration](https://github.com/jarun/nnn/wiki/Advanced-use-cases#show-cp-mv-progress)) | optional | copy, move progress |
| `$VISUAL` (else `$EDITOR`), `$PAGER`, `$SHELL` | optional | fallback vi, less, sh |
#### From a package manager
Install `nnn` from your package manager. If the version available is dated try an alternative installation method.
Packaging status (expand)
Unlisted packagers:
● CentOS (yum --enablerepo=epel install nnn)
● Milis Linux (mps kur nnn)
● NuTyX (cards install nnn)
● Source Mage (cast nnn)