Rust-powered terminal file manager

$ fv

A fast, keyboard-driven file manager that lives in your terminal.

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fv in action: navigating files, previewing, and running operations in the terminal

Why fv

Built for people who live in the terminal.

Runs in your terminal

No GUI needed—same experience over SSH or locally, anywhere a terminal runs.

Fast & lightweight

Built in Rust. Snappy startup and navigation, even in large directories.

Simple UI, rich features

A clean single screen packs in file ops, preview, grep, bookmarks, and more.

Install

Up and running in seconds.

Install with Homebrew, or grab a prebuilt archive from GitHub Releases.

Homebrew

macOS · Linux

macOS (Apple Silicon) and Linux (x86_64). The macOS build is signed & notarized. Homebrew 6.0.0+ requires trusting the tap before install.

$ brew tap pkshimizu/tap
$ brew trust --formula pkshimizu/tap/fv
$ brew install fv

GitHub Releases

Manual

Download the archive for your platform, extract it, and put the fv binary on your PATH.

# download from releases, then
$ tar -xzf fv-*.tar.gz
$ sudo mv fv /usr/local/bin/

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Reference

Everything, one keystroke away.

A complete map of fv's keybindings, grouped by what you're doing.

File list & navigation

Move around the filesystem

↑↓

Move the cursor

Enter

Open file / enter directory

Backspace

Go to parent directory

<>

History back / forward

~

Jump to home

j

Jump to path

Space

Toggle multi-select

ShiftA

Select all / clear selection

.

Toggle hidden files

s

Change sort order

File operations

Create, move, and transform

c

Copy

m

Move

d

Delete

r

Rename

k

Make directory

n

New file

l

Create symlink pointing to cursor file

p

Compress to Zip

u

Unzip / extract

x

Run a command

y

Yank path to clipboard

CtrlC

Copy to paste buffer

CtrlX

Cut to paste buffer

CtrlV

Paste into current directory

Copy, move, delete and zip run asynchronously with a progress indicator—press Esc to cancel.

Search & preview

Find and inspect without leaving

f

Incremental search

/

Filter list (hide non-matches)

g

Grep — jump to hits

v

Preview text / image / audio (n · p to switch files)

t

Tree view

i

File info

a

Attributes

Filter (/) hides non-matching files to narrow the list and operate on just those; search (f) keeps the full list and only jumps the cursor.

Bookmarks, shell, and config

b+-

Show / add / remove bookmarks

TabShiftTab

Switch to next / previous context

w

New context (duplicate directory)

ShiftW

Close current context

h

Launch a shell

e

Open in file manager

o

Settings

?

Help

q

Quit

Preview pane showing file content (text / image / audio)