hathibelagal-dev / tui-file-explorer

Just a beautiful file explorer that runs in the terminal

🗄️ tui-file-explorer

• 🖥️ A pretty file explorer that runs in the terminal. Instantly preview files in hex, determine strings present in binary files, and know file signatures. Very handy tool if you're participating in a CTF, reverse engineering stuff, or just want to be more efficient while exploring folders.

• 🔥 Written in pure C, so it's extremely fast and lightweight

• 🥦 The executable is just 19048 bytes

• 🚀 Rapidly improving

Screenshots

Running on Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS

Running inside VS Code's terminal

Build and Run

On Ubuntu

sudo apt install libmagic-dev
make
bin/fex

You can use make fast to create a larger, but faster, binary.

⌨️ Controls

w - go up a file

s - go down a file

t - toggle between hex and ASCII preview

space - select current directory

p - go to parent directory

b - go back to previous directory

h - go to home directory

r - redraw (necessary after resizing the terminal window)

q - quit