CFM

C File Manager is just a simple file manager

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Description

CFM is a simple TUI file manager fully written in C focusing on performance, and memory & cpu usage

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Take a Look!

it supports renaming folders and files but I forgot to feature that 😅

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It's lightweight, I swear

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Requirements

• Ncurses (TUI)
• GCC (Compiler)

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Features

• Lightweight

And just like any file manager:

• Open Files/Folders

• Create Files/Folders

• Delete Files/Folders

• Focused on keyboard keybinds which makes it faster to use

  • q/Escape: Exit
  • a: Create a new file/folder
  • d: Delete a file/folder
  • r: Rename a file/folder
  • Left Arrow/Enter: Enter a folder or open a file
  • Right Arrow: Go back

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Installation

Installing CFM is very easy

Before that let's install the required libraries

sudo apt update
sudo apt install build-essentials  libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev

Fedora Distros

sudo dnf groupinstall "Development Tools"
sudo dnf install ncurses-devel

Arch Distros

sudo pacman -S base-devel ncurses

Clone the repo , and build the source code

git clone https://github.com/nothingfr87/cfm.git
cd cfm/

make build

Now you have the binary you can do anything you want with it!

To install CFM on your PC

sudo make all install

On Windows, I don't know how to install binaries so you'll have to build the source code then move the binary file to a safe place then add that folder to your PATH environment

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Supported OS:

CFM Supports:

• Linux (Tested on Debian 13 Trixie)

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Issues:

Please consider reporting in Issues if you faced any problems, to help this project get better and better

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License

This project is licensed under the MIT License

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Other Projects:

If you don't like CFM, I am sorry I'll try to make it better!

But for now here some other projects that you would like, these projects inspired me to make this!

• Yazi
• NNN
• Ranger

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Please consider giving a star if you liked the project, it would be great :)