Questions tagged [ranger]
Ranger is a terminal-based file manager with vi-style key bindings.
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Copy any kind of file to clipboard with xclip
So, I want to be able to copy any kind of file to an X clipboard with a shell script (mostly as a means to copy files in ranger, to gui applications).
So far i have this script:
TYPE=$(file -b --mime-...
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Search and select all matching files in Ranger
Say that I have the following files in the current directory :
aa01.txt
aa02.txt
bb01.txt
bb02.txt
cc01.txt
...
Is there a way I can search for a given pattern and select ALL the matching files at ...
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Check if I'm in a shell through ranger
In ranger, you can hit S to jump into a shell and ctrl+D to get back to ranger.
When I've been in a shell for a while and I want to jump to ranger, I'm unsure if this is a regular shell and I should ...
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Recovering mutt attachment filenames
I have a small mutt macro to save attachments using my file manager (ranger, as it happens). It looks like this:
macro attach S "<pipe-message>muttsaveattach"<enter>
where ...
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Pass multiple directories to be opened by ranger in single instance?
Is there some way I can pass a "list" of unrelated directories for example:
/tmp/
/home/chris
/home/chris/example
Into ranger's interface? Similar to what can be done with ls with the -d argument.
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Remove the leftmost column from ranger file manager
There is a way I can remove the rightmost column:
# Preview files on the rightmost column?
# And collapse (shrink) the last column if there is nothing to preview?
set preview_files false
set ...
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Ranger - cd into nth folder
I found the command I want to use: cd $(ls -d */|head -n 1) and it works as expected when I do it in the terminal. However when I map it in ranger (either with map g1 cd... or map g1 shell cd...) I ...
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Ranger Run Custom .bash_profile Command
Suppose I have the following in my ~/.bash_profile file:
function lazygit() {
git add .
git commit -a -m "$1"
git push
}
I have run source .bash_profile and it works well in terminal on ...
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Configure Ranger file manager to open google docs synched by Insync
I have arch linux with all the lastest updates, and I am running Ranger file manager version 1.9.2-1.
I use insync version 1.5.7 to sync my google drive files to the laptop.
If I open a terminal ...
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w3m does not show images
I'm trying to use w3m to show image previews in ranger but I can't get it to work.
w3m seems to be working for drawing in general as i can display webpages in the terminal.
However when i try w3m ...
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Ranger: How to Remap hjkl Keys?
I using Ranger and I am a Colemak Keyboard Layout user. I want to remap the h, j, k, and l keys to n, u, e, i keys. I tried this: issue #8 and Ranger doesn't seem to read from ~/.config/ranger/keys.py....
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jump to a directory inside of ranger
I tried :cd path but it does literally nothing.
Imagine I open ranger while inside of ~/dir/, now I want to go to ~/somewhere/else/ while inside of ranger.
I know I can hjjjj(whatever)lj/k(whatever)...
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Use ranger as my default file manager in i3wm
When download a file via browser, the download status message box has an option named show in folder, How can I configure it to open ranger when I click it?
Reason I want to do it:
I'm currently ...
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Ranger: Add Foxit pdf reader to rifle.conf
I've Zathura as my default pdf viewer which is fine. I've also installed Foxit Reader but it doesn't show up when I try to open any pdf file in ranger with r key. I tried adding following line in my ...
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ranger “set preview_files true” does not work
Since quite some time the file-preview-window in ranger stays empty.
I.e. it indeed shows up but does not preview the content of text-files.
Image preview and .pdf preview however does work.
The ...
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How to create multiple directories in Ranger?
As in the equivalent of mkdir dir1 dir2 when running in bash. This creates two separate directories, dir1 and dir2.
If you run :mkdir dir1 dir2 in ranger, it simply creates a directory called 'dir1 ...
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How do you go back to the previous directory in Ranger?
In Ranger you can go to a directory with g. When you type g it gives you a list of places you can very easily go. For example g, and then p takes me to /tmp. How do I get back to the directory I was ...
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How do I delete a single one-off file without disturbing the batch-job I'm making?
As a follow up to this question, how do I delete a single file without losing the selection that I've already got?
for i in $(seq 1 5); do touch "$i.jpg"; done;
mkdir subdir
Let's say you marked 1....
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Batch moving a custom set of images with Ranger? [duplicate]
This is a question for the Ranger (file manager)
Let's say that I have a directory with five files..
for i in $(seq 1 5); do touch "$i.jpg"; done;
mkdir subdir
How would I move 1.jpg, and 4.jpg, ...
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Where is the editor choice kept in ranger?
On a fresh ranger install I tried to open neofetch config with ranger and selected ed to see what is it. I am glad Ctrl+D worked to exit the ed, but now ranger opens all files with it. Restarting ...
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How to change relative symlinked path to “actual” one (in ranger or terminal)
What is actual path? Consider folder A in the file system and a symlinked B to it. Consider currently in ranger (or terminal) inside a sub-directory within B such as /home/B/sub1/sub2 which is in fact ...
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How can I view current file only instead of all marked files in ranger?
In the ranger file manager, https://github.com/ranger/ranger, how can I open the currently selected file instead of all marked files?
I'd like to iterate through a directory and choose whether I mark ...
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Ranger will not preview images or text
I have tried sudo apt-get purge ranger and then reinstalling it, but I have not been able to find anything that works. My python version is 2.7.
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How to bind a keyboard shortcut in zsh to a program requiring stdin?
This is a follow-up to this question: I'm trying to create a keyboard shortcut for the terminal file manager ranger, in order to jump from the zsh prompt into the file manager with a single keystroke. ...
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Ranger, open file freeze the terminal
I set Viewnior for open image files, but when I open any image file (jpg or png) ranger stays frozen or something similar, and I only can return to ranger when I close the app that opened the file. ...
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How to “follow” symlink in Ranger to open containing directory of target?
In Ranger, I often have symlink and I want to go to the containing directory of the file that is linked to. How to do this with Ranger?
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Atom crashes after closing the file manager ranger
When I open a file with atom through ranger and than close the terminal which executes ranger, it causes the atom editor to close too, my configuration file looks like:
user@computer ~ $ cat ~/....
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Default application used for “open folder” in popup menu
When I enter, for instance, xdg-mime query filetype Video/movie.mkv, the output is video/x-matroska; if I then enter xdg-mime query default video/x-matroska, the output is mplayer.desktop, and that is ...
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xmodmap key bindings reset when I open a new tab in the shell
When I open a shell in ranger with shift-s, open vim and then open a shell with :sh or open a new shell tab with ctrl-shift-t, my xmodmap keybindings (swapped caps lock and escape keys) are reset. ...
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Refresh cache of Ranger file manager
How do I refresh ranger file manager? It automatically refreshes if a file is changed/edited/created/removed inside current directory, but I want to be able to force it to do so. How would I do that?
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How to enable syntax highlighting in ranger preview?
I have seen some screenshots where ranger uses syntax-highlighting in its preview window. So I was wondering how to enable this feature and found out that I need the scope.sh file in the directory
/...
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Preview files in ranger
I have been able to preview images in ranger. But for some reason I don't have file preview. Not for any type of files. Not for compressed files either. I'm running linux mint and ranger v1.7.1. How ...
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Is there a way to get ranger to syntax-highlight files using the X colorscheme of the terminal?
The file manager ranger works great, and uses the normal X resources color scheme of my terminal (urxvt). But when it shows a preview of files and highlights their syntax (presumably using highlight ...
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Ranger cannot open pdf files with Foxitreader
I have the following lines in my rifle.conf for reading pdf files:
ext pdf, has foxitreader, X, flag f = foxitreader -- "$@"
ext pdf, has evince, X, flag f = evince -- "$@"
ext pdf, has zathura, ...
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Ranger file manager becomes unresponsive on using some applications
Suppose I open a text file using Emacs or a picture using Gimp then the Ranger file manager becomes unresponsive till you close this application.
However if I open the same text file say using Gedit ...
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Preview PDF as image in ranger
How can I preview PDFs as images in ranger? By default it uses pdftotext (in the scope.sh preview configuration file), but I would like to use pdfimages, pdftoppm, or another graphical solution ...
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Open file behavior using Ranger in Windows Subsystem for Linux
I am using Microsoft Windows ([Version 10.0.15063]) subsystem for Linux and observe an unexpected behavior when opening files using Ranger file manager in bash.
For example, I have ~/.config/rifle....
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Ranger file manager custom window title
I'm using the Ranger file manager on a daily basis but there is one thing that I wish I could modify.
Namely, having multiple ranger windows open, this is what the window titles look like (I'm using ...
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Sort files in specific folder with ranger
I would like to sort the files in my Screenshots folder by date, so I added the following to my rc.conf:
setlocal PATH=~/Screenshots sort mtime
setlocal PATH=~/Screenshots sort_reverse False
But it ...
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How to create a new file / directory using ranger?
I suppose I could use mkdir / touch but I'm not sure if these would go in the current directory as viewed in ranger.
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Ranger what program is opening file?
I'm using ranger and when I navigate to a folder with audio files and press enter it plays mp3 files in terminal.
The terminal audio program isn't my default as when I double click from GUI a ...
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How to change the default text editor in ranger?
Currently, ranger will only open text files with nano, and I want it to open them with vim.
As per the Arch Wiki I have tried adding
has xdg-open, flag f = xdg-open "$1"
ext txt = vim "$@"
to rifle....
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How can I move all `marked` files to another directory in ranger?
When I select multiple files within ranger (using <Space> or V), how do I move these selected files to another directory?
I've tried to use dd and pp, but this only moves the file that's ...
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Ranger - open_with without suspending
When I open a file into ranger with a GUI application not listed in the rifle.conf file (i.e. using the open_with command), the ranger terminal window gets "suspended" until I close the GUI app.
For ...
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Store opened tabs of sessions into file
Is it possible to store the current ranger session into a file so to restore it at a later point in time?
EDIT: I ask this question because I use many different ranger sessions and tabs inside a tmux ...
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Ranger cd into a folder (and invoke shell)?
I'm using Ranger to navigate around my file system.
Is there a shortcut where I cd into a folder without leaving Ranger (as in open bash with a location of a folder found by navigating in Ranger)?
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How to script ranger to copy a file to another directory via python
ranger is a command line file manager that can be extended with python. The commands.py file contains examples of the built in commands:
https://github.com/ranger/ranger/blob/master/ranger/config/...
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“Union” based file manager
I would like to be able to perform actions on files in different locations within a common window/container. Let's say I have the following directory structure:
└── DCIM
├── browser-photos
│ ...
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“scope.sh” is lacking for ranger file manager
Ranger is a file manager using Miller columns to navigate between the tree.
It has an external script called scope.sh that previews files utilizing external applications such as the .torrent files ...
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Bicon. Incorrect exit from shell, open in ranger
Installed bicon-git, this is written in .bashrc
# hack to launch bicon if not launched
if ! [[ "$(ps -p $(ps -p $(echo $$) -o ppid=) -o comm=)" =~ 'bicon'* ]]; then
bicon.bin
fi
Launch ranger
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