dayeya / owl

A minimalistic keyboard only file explorer built with Rust

Owl

Owl is a minimalistic, simple and fast file explorer that aims to make file exploring fast, safe and easy. To achieve that Owl provides keyboard only TUI, a built-in shell and a built-in guide.

Normal mode

The default mode of Owl, you can go back to normal mode by pressing the Escape key.
The normal mode enables you to browse through files and open them by pressing the Enter key while hovering on the file.

Shell mode

Owl has its own shell and unique commands to interact with the file system.
You can gain access to the mode by typing : in any other mode.

Shell commands

Command	Description	Synopsis
end	Quit from owl	end
exp	Display cwd tree	exp
ser	Searches for a file inside cwd	ser [file_name.extension]
scd	Switches the cwd to the given directory	scd [new directory path]
del	Deletes a file from cwd	del [file_name.extension]
cpy	Copies a file to clipboard	cpy [file_name.extension]
opn	Opens the contents of a file	opn [file_name.extension]
mov	Moves the file to a given directory	mov [file_name.extension] [path]

Options mode

Display all available commands in a separate mode.
I've chosen to create a separate mode for this feature as it is more convenient to navigate inside Owl.

Development Milestones

• Configurable.
• Preview files.
• Creation of files and deletion.
• Very fast resource searching algorithm.
• Compressing folders and zip extractions.

Authors

Daniel Sapojnikov 2024.