SSFM - Super Simple File Manager

ssfm is a simple file-manager created to simplify operations involving files from the terminal. This can be particularly useful when using SSH connections and you only have the command line available.

Repository

You can find the repository here

Installation

To install the program, you can proceed from pip:

pip3 install ssfm

or clone and install from this repository manually.

Documentation

The project is mainly inspired by SpaceVim, a terminal editor where operations are done with the spacebar key as leader. Below is a simplified version of the documentation with the main key combinations.

File operations

• <SPC><f><n>: Create a new file
• <SPC><f><m>: Create a new folder
• <SPC><f><e>: Edit a file (or open the folder as project and edit)
• <SPC><f><d>: Delete a file or folder
• <SPC><f><y>: Copy a file or folder
• <SPC><f><x>: Cut a file or folder
• <SPC><f><p>: Paste a file or folder

Window operations

• <SPC><w><w>: Switch focus to next window
• <SPC><w><n>: Create a new window
• <SPC><w><d>: Delete the currently focused window

Note: deleting the last remaining window will lead to the termination of the application.

Git operations

In order to use the git functionalities, it is actually required to install tig (https://github.com/jonas/tig).

• <SPC><g><g>: Summary of the status of the current git folder
• <SPC><g><s>: Status - tig status command
• <SPC><g><l>: Log - tig log command

Acknowledgements

For the realization of some window boxes, I used the library cursesDialog (https://github.com/jacklam718/cursesDialog)