YAZI(1)

📦 version 26.9.1, in nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable

🦆 YAZI(1) — General Commands Manual ✨

okay bestie, welcome to YAZI(1) — the General Commands Manual entry for your new terminal file-manager obsession 🫶💅

🌸 NAME

yazi — your blazingly fast terminal file manager 🔥🦆

✨ SYNOPSIS

yazi [OPTIONS] [ENTRY]

🦋 DESCRIPTION

Yazi (which literally means “duck” 🦆) is a terminal file manager written in Rust, based on non-blocking async I/O. It aims to provide an efficient, user-friendly, and customizable file management experience. No cap, that's the whole vibe: efficient, friendly, customizable, and very much giving main-character terminal energy 💖

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • --cwd-file <CWD_FILE> — Write the cwd on exit to this file
  • --chooser-file <CHOOSER_FILE> — Write the selected files to this file on open fired
  • --clear-cache — Clear the cache directory
  • --local-events <LOCAL_EVENTS> — Report the specified local events to stdout
  • --remote-events <REMOTE_EVENTS> — Report the specified remote events to stdout
  • --debug — Print debug information
  • -V, --version — Print version
  • -h, --help — Print help

💅 PRESET KEYBINDINGS 💅

  • k/<up> — Move the cursor up
  • j/<down> — Move the cursor down
  • l/<right> — Enter hovered directory
  • h/<left> — Leave the current directory and into its parent
  • K — Move the cursor up 5 lines
  • L — Move the cursor down 5 lines
  • gg — Move cursor to the top
  • G — Move cursor to the bottom

🫶 Selection

  • <space> — Toggle selection of hovered file/directory
  • v — Enter visual mode (selection mode)
  • V — Enter visual mode (unset mode)
  • <ctrl> + a — Select all files
  • <ctrl> + r — Invert selection of all files
  • <esc> — Cancel selection

🍓 File/directory operations

  • o/<enter> — Open selected files
  • O/<ctrl> + <enter> — Open selected files interactively (NOTE: some terminals don't support the <ctrl>+<enter> combination)
  • y — Yank the selected files (copy)
  • x — Yank the selected files (cut)
  • p — Paste the yanked files
  • P — Paste the yanked files (overwrite if destination exists)
  • Y/X — Cancel the yank state (unyank)
  • - — Create a symbolic link to the yanked files (absolute path)
  • _ — Create a symbolic link to the yanked files (relative path)
  • d — Move the files to the trash
  • D — Permanently delete files
  • a — Create a file or directory (ends with "/" for directories)
  • r — Rename a file or directory
  • ; — Run a shell command
  • : — Run a shell command (block the UI until the command finishes)
  • . — Toggle the visibility of hidden files
  • <ctrl> + s — Cancel the ongoing search
  • z — Jump to a directory using zoxide
  • Z — Jump to a directory, or reveal a file using fzf

🧚 Tabs

  • t — Create a new tab using current path
  • 1-9 — Switch to specified tab number
  • [ — Switch to previous tab
  • ] — Switch to next tab
  • { — Swap current tab with previous tab
  • } — Swap current tab with next tab

👑 Linemode

  • ms — Set linemode to size
  • mp — Set linemode to permissions
  • mm — Set linemode to modified time
  • mn — Set linemode to none

🌈 Preview

  • <alt> + k or <alt> + <pageup> — Seek up 5 units in preview
  • <alt> + j or <alt> + <pagedown> — Seek down 5 units in preview

💜 Copying paths

  • cc — Copy absolute path
  • cd — Copy path of the parent directory
  • cf — Copy the name of the file
  • cn — Copy the name of the file without the extension

🦋 Filtering files/directories

  • f — Filter the files/directories in CWD

⭐ Finding files/directories

  • / — Forward find file/directory in CWD
  • ? — Backward find file/directory in CWD
  • n — Jump to next occurrence
  • N — Jump to previous occurrence

🔥 Searching files/directories

  • / — Forward find file/directory in CWD
  • ? — Backward find file/directory in CWD
  • n — Jump to next occurrence
  • N — Jump to previous occurrence
  • s — Search files by name using fd, see fd(1)
  • S — Search files by name using ripgrep, see rg(1)

🎀 Sorting

  • ,m — Sort by modified time
  • ,M — Sort by modified time (reverse)
  • ,c — Sort by creation time
  • ,C — Sort by creation time (reverse)
  • ,e — Sort by file extension
  • ,E — Sort by file extension (reverse)
  • ,a — Sort alphabetically
  • ,A — Sort alphabetically (reverse)
  • ,n — Sort naturally
  • ,N — Sort naturally (reverse)
  • ,s — Sort by size
  • ,S — Sort by size (reverse)
  • ? — Backward find file/directory in CWD
  • n — Jump to next occurrence
  • N — Jump to previous occurrence
  • s — Search files by name using fd, see fd(1)
  • S — Search files by name using ripgrep, see rg(1)

🌸 SEE ALSO

yazi-config(5), yazi-plugins(7)

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