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Fm

A terminal based file manager

Install / Use

/learn @mistakenelf/Fm
About this skill

Quality Score

0/100

Supported Platforms

Universal

README

<p align="center"> <img src="./assets/logo.svg" height="180" width="180" /> <p align="center"> Keep those files organized </p> <p align="center"> <a href="https://github.com/mistakenelf/fm/releases"><img src="https://img.shields.io/github/v/release/mistakenelf/fm" alt="Latest Release"></a> <a href="https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/mistakenelf/fm?tab=doc"><img src="https://godoc.org/github.com/golang/gddo?status.svg" alt="GoDoc"></a> <a href="https://github.com/mistakenelf/fm/actions"><img src="https://img.shields.io/github/actions/workflow/status/mistakenelf/fm/build.yml?branch=main" alt="Build Status"></a> </p> </p> <p align="center" style="margin-top: 30px; margin-bottom: 20px;"> <img src="./assets/default.png" width="450" alt="default screenshot"> </p>

About The Project

A terminal based file manager

Built With

Installation

Curl

curl -sfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mistakenelf/fm/main/install.sh | sh

Go

go install github.com/mistakenelf/fm@latest

AUR

Install through the Arch User Repository with your favorite AUR helper. There are currently two possible packages:

  • fm-git: Builds the package from the main branch
paru -S fm-git
  • fm-bin: Uses the github release package
paru -S fm-bin

Features

  • File icons (requires nerd font)
  • Layout adjusts to terminal resize
  • Syntax highlighting for source code with customizable themes using styles from chroma (dracula, monokai etc.)
  • Render pretty markdown
  • Mouse support
  • Themes (default, gruvbox, nord)
  • Render PNG, JPG and JPEG as strings
  • Colors adapt to terminal background, for syntax highlighting to work properly on light/dark terminals, set the appropriate theme flags
  • Open selected file in editor set in EDITOR environment variable
  • Copy selected directory items path to the clipboard
  • Read PDF files

Themes

Default

<img src="./assets/default.png" width="350" alt="default">

Gruvbox

<img src="./assets/gruvbox.png" width="350" alt="gruvbox">

Nord

<img src="./assets/nord.png" width="350" alt="nord">

Usage

  • fm will start fm in the current directory
  • fm update will update fm to the latest version
  • fm --start-dir=/some/start/dir will start fm in the specified directory
  • fm --selection-path=/tmp/tmpfile will write the selected items path to the selection path when pressing <kbd>E</kbd> and exit fm
  • fm --enable-logging=true start fm with logging enabled
  • fm --pretty-markdown=true render markdown using glamour to make it look nice
  • fm --theme=default set the theme of fm
  • fm --show-icons=false set whether to show icons or not
  • fm --syntax-theme=dracula sets the syntax theme to render code with

Local Development

Follow the instructions below to get setup for local development

  1. Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/mistakenelf/fm
  1. Run
make
  1. Build a binary
make build
View on GitHub
GitHub Stars630
CategoryDevelopment
Updated12d ago
Forks28

Languages

Go

Security Score

100/100

Audited on Mar 9, 2026

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