fff

As something of an old-timer here, there's some amusement, but mostly appreciation that people are discovering that these very old ways of doing things have a lot of potential (and a lot of untapped ideas) Somewhat relatedly, recently I discovered the colorfully named fff. It's a solid file manager, but what I've used it for is a terminal based filespace navigator (by adding a function that just leaves you in the place you navigated to). It's funny how it's hard to break the habit of "cd" to move around, despite this being way faster, especially if you're not sure where you're going. https://github.com/dylanaraps/fff

Similar but in pure Bash: https://github.com/dylanaraps/fff

Also author of a pure-bash file manager (https://github.com/dylanaraps/fff), TUI terminal pixer art editor (https://github.com/dylanaraps/pxltrm), IRC client (https://github.com/dylanaraps/birch), TUI client for Transmission torrent daemon (https://github.com/dylanaraps/torque), and even an attempt to coreutils implementation (https://github.com/dylanaraps/bareutils). A bash wizard someone may say.

This is something I wrote a few days ago. All it requires is a POSIX shell and POSIX [, printf, dd and stty. Great for use in an initrd/initramfs or smaller environment as these tools are most likely available. File operations (cp, mv, rm, etc) have not yet been implemented. It's on the TODO list. (though I'm unsure if they're even needed) We'll see. :) Writing this was... interesting. POSIX shell is very limited in what it can do. Endless tricks have been used, see the "implementation details" section of the README. Please let me know if you come across any issue. I have also written a file manager in bash. https://github.com/dylanaraps/fff Edit: To answer the "WHY?" question; I find pushing the shell beyond what it's supposed to do FUN!

Lately, I've been playing with the idea of combining tmux, nano or purpose-built kilo editors[0], fff [1] or slmenu [2][3], and kanban.bash [4] into my own little "agile" terminal IDE. [0] https://github.com/antirez/kilo [1] https://github.com/dylanaraps/fff [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlJto75auCA [3] https://github.com/joshaw/slmenu [4] https://github.com/coderofsalvation/kanban.bash

The shell is my favorite language and I really don't know why. It's definitely possible to write shell code which properly passes shellcheck's linter though it's an uphill battle to learn the ins and outs and _why_ X is wrong when Y is right. I even managed to write a full TUI file manager in bash! https://github.com/dylanaraps/fff I full understand that there are times when the shell should not be used and when other languages are a better way to solve a specific problem, however I love pushing the shell beyond its supposed limits! :)

Hello, I'm the author of the Pure Bash Bible. Happy to answer any questions you may have. Here's an example of what bash is capable of: https://github.com/dylanaraps/fff/ (a TUI file manager written in bash)!