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Files management with Yazi

It is no secret that I like good TUIs (terminal user interface). Recently, I published a post about the lazygit that sped up my git workflow so much. Today I wanted to show you a few demos of Yazi, my new favorite terminal-based files manager.

Yazi is written in Rust, a files/directories manager with tons of features: preview for text files and other formats (via optional CLIs), multiple item edits, tabs, theming, configurable keyboard shortcuts, a plugin system, and plenty of others. It is a relatively new tool with the first commit published only a year ago.

A series of quick demos to get you hooked on.

Super intuitive navigation using arrow keys or vim-like hjkl
Copy/yank (y), paste (p) and rename (r)
Select multiple items and move to trash (d) or delete (D)
Opening a new tab (t), and switching between them (1-9)

This is just a subset of Yazi features, but these are the ones I use most frequently. There are plenty more TUIs to play with in the future, so stay tuned and share your favourite ones with me.

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