ranger is a console file manager with VI key bindings. It provides a
minimalistic and nice curses interface with a view on the directory hierarchy.
It ships with rifle
, a file launcher that is good at automatically finding
out which program to use for what file type.
This file describes ranger and how to get it to run. For instructions on the
usage, please read the man page. See HACKING.md
for development specific
information.
For configuration, check the files in ranger/config/
or copy the
default config to ~/.config/ranger
with ranger --copy-config
.
The examples/
directory contains several scripts and plugins that demonstrate how
ranger can be extended or combined with other programs. These files can be
found in the git repository or in /usr/share/doc/ranger
.
A note to packagers: Versions meant for packaging are listed in the changelog on the website.
- Authors: see
AUTHORS
file - License: GNU General Public License Version 3
- Website: http://ranger.github.io/
- Download: http://ranger.github.io/ranger-stable.tar.gz
- Bug reports: https://github.com/ranger/ranger/issues
- git clone http://git.sv.gnu.org/r/ranger.git
- An easily maintainable file manager in a high level language
- A quick way to switch directories and browse the file system
- Keep it small but useful, do one thing and do it well
- Console based, with smooth integration into the unix shell
- UTF-8 Support (if your python copy supports it)
- Multi-column display
- Preview of the selected file/directory
- Common file operations (create/chmod/copy/delete/...)
- Renaming multiple files at once
- VIM-like console and hotkeys
- Automatically determine file types and run them with correct programs
- Change the directory of your shell after exiting ranger
- Tabs, bookmarks, mouse support
- Python (
>=2.6
or>=3.1
) with thecurses
module and (optionally) wide-unicode support. - A pager (
less
by default)
Optional:
- The
file
program for determining file types - The python module
chardet
, in case of encoding detection problems sudo
to use the "run as root"-featurew3m
for thew3mimgdisplay
program to preview images
Optional, for enhanced file previews (with scope.sh
):
img2txt
(fromcaca-utils
) for ASCII-art image previewshighlight
orpygmentize
for syntax highlighting of codeatool
,bsdtar
and/orunrar
for previews of archiveslynx
,w3m
orelinks
for previews of html pagespdftotext
for pdf previewstransmission-show
for viewing bit-torrent informationmediainfo
orexiftool
for viewing information about media filesodt2txt
for OpenDocument text files (odt
,ods
,odp
andsxw
)
Use the package manager of your operating system to install ranger.
Note that ranger can be started without installing by simply running ranger.py
.
To install ranger manually:
sudo make install
This translates roughly to:
sudo python setup.py install --optimize=1 --record=install_log.txt
This also saves a list of all installed files to install_log.txt
, which you can
use to uninstall ranger.
After starting ranger, you can use the Arrow Keys or h
j
k
l
to navigate, Enter
to open a file or type Q
to quit. The third column shows a preview of the
current file. The second is the main column and the first shows the parent
directory.
Ranger can automatically copy default configuration files to ~/.config/ranger
if you run it with the switch --copy-config=( rc | scope | ... | all )
.
See ranger --help
for a description of that switch. Also check
ranger/config/
for the default configuration.