Sharpshooter

Minimal file manager in the terminal.

Single-key hotkeys for easy workflow.

Simple to configure and hack at.

What this is not: complex, with many features, with thousands of commits, hard to get into, promising support for special encodings or alphabets, supporting extra features like bulk rename.

Single key actions

• open terminal at current folder
• archive/extract
• make new folder
• toggle hidden files visibility
• rename
• delete
• undo delete
• copy/cut
• open file

Features

• select multiple files
• configurable hotkeys

Install and remove

snap install --beta sharpshooter --devmode

snap remove sharpshooter

or download the latest .deb from the releases.

Change hotkeys

• edit the .sharpshooter_config in your home dir with your preferred hotkeys

Technologies

curses

pathlib

configparser

shutil

logging

Block diagram

Releasing as .deb

1. install sudo apt-get install build-essential devscripts debhelper debmake dh-python python3-all
2. python3 setup.py sdist
3. mv dist/sharpshooter-*.tar.gz .
4. tar -xzmf sharpshooter-*.tar.gz
5. cd into sharpshooter-* folder
6. debmake -b":python3"
7. debuild

Running in IntelliJ

• add PYTHONUNBUFFERED=1 as env variable
• check Emulate terminal in output console

Inspired by

ranger

Midnight Comander