Discover the super-charged file manager

The problem of plenty has long plagued GUI managers where many tools offer similar features. Shashank Sharma recreates the situation on the CLI.

We’ve previously discussed the FFF file manager here, which scoffs at traditional file managers in its appearance and functionality. Our tool of choice this issue, nnn, is cut from the same cloth. The project was originally forked from Noice, which is a small ncurses-based file manager, hence the name Noice is Not Noice (nnn), but the project has since dropped the acronym and now prefers to be known only as nnn, or n³. Many distributions carry nnn in their software repositories and the project’s GitHub page (https://github.com/ jarun/nnn) provides a list of these, and the version of nnn on offer. Unfortunately, many distributions carry older versions of nnn in their repositories, but if you’re running the latest releases of Debian 12, Fedora 34+. Arch, or Void Linux, you’ll find the…

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APC (Digital) - 1 Issue, June 2022

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