sfm(1)

💫 sfm(1) — General Commands Manual 💫

okay so bestie, welcome to sfm — your new main character file manager. this is the manual page for the sfm command, and yes we're gonna read it together, it's gonna be fun, i promise 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

sfm — simple file manager 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

sfm [-v]

that's it. that's the whole vibe check. one optional flag, no cap 🎀

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so sfm is a simple file manager for unix-like systems, and it's built on termbox — yes, that termbox 🔥

what you get, bestie:

• dual panes (two panes, living their best parallel lives)
• a bottom statusbar (for the little updates, we love her)
• bookmarks (for the places you keep coming back to 💖)
• open files by extention (it picks the app for you, slay)
• vim-like key bindings as the default configuration (iykyk 👑)

and a detail people always miss: the cwd is the left pane dir — like, your current working directory is the left pane's directory. periodt. 🌸

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -v — print version. that's it, that's the option. show her off 🦋

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✨ USAGE ✨

🌈 Normal Mode 🌈

this is where you live 90% of the time. the keys:

• q — quit
• h — back
• j — down
• k — up
• l — open dir | file
• g — top
• G — bottom
• ctrl+u — scroll up
• ctrl+d — scroll down
• n — create new file if not exists
• N — create new directory if not exists
• d — delete file | directory recursively
• D — duplicate file | directory recursively
• y — yank
• p — paste
• P — move
• b — spawn a shell in the current directory
• c — start change
• cw — rename
• co — change owner and group (chown)
• cm — change mode (chmod)
• cf — change flags (chflags | chattr)
• cc — exit change
• cq — exit change
• . — toggle dotfiles
• v — start visual mode
• / — start filter
• ENTER — find filter
• ESC — exit filter
• SPACE — switch pane
• ctrl+r — refresh panes

⚠️ heads up bestie: d deletes recursively, and D duplicates recursively. like, the whole tree. no takebacks. be so serious when you press those 💀

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🦋 Visual Mode 🦋

select a bunch of stuff and do things to it. the moment:

• j — select down
• k — select up
• d — delete selection
• v — exit visual mode
• q — exit visual mode
• ESC — exit visual mode | change

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✨ CUSTOMIZATION ✨

so here's the thing, and honestly it's giving minimalist icon energy 🎀:

sfm is customized by creating a custom config.h and (re)compiling the source code.

that's the whole system. no config file to parse at runtime, no plugin folder, nothing. and per the page itself — this keeps it fast, secure and simple. we stan a low-overhead queen ✨

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✨ ENVIRONMENT ✨

the env vars she actually reads:

• EDITOR — open unconfigured file extention. vi(1) if not set.
• HOME — right pane default directory. / if not set.
• SHELL — shell spawned with the b key. /bin/sh if not set.

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✨ AUTHORS ✨

See the LICENSE file for the authors. 💖 (go read it, support your local maintainers)

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✨ LICENSE ✨

See the LICENSE file for the terms of redistribution.

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and that's the whole page bestie 🧚 no cap, you're basically an sfm expert now. go manage some files, you absolute icon 💅⭐

🌸 cute little sign-off: this was sfm-0.4, page sfm(1) from the General Commands Manual — see you in the group chat 🫶