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Asked: 2020-11-01 10:08:20 +0800 CST

Preview files from terminal like gnome-sushi does in nautilus

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I know that there are commands like cat, less or even xdg-open, but I really like the convenience of just previewing. GNOME Sushi doesn't seem to support commands from the terminal.

Maybe a similar application can do the job or even writing a script? Is there a way to do this?

scripts command-line gnome-terminal previews gnome-sushi

1 Answers

  1. I think you might be interested in ranger. It is a terminal-based file manager that uses a three-columns layout. The left column shows the parent directory, with the current directory highlighted, the middle column shows the contents of the current directory and the right column shows a preview of the selected item.

    ranger in terminal

    In the above screenshot you can see that I am inside the /var/log directory (left column) and I have selected the faillog file (middle column) which I am previewing (right column).

    You can install ranger by running:

    sudo apt install ranger

    Start it by opening a terminal and running:

    ranger

    You can move around using the keyboard arrows or VIM-like shortcuts (h, j, k, l). You can open a file in the selected application by pressing Enter or →. You can close ranger by pressing q.

    More information can be found in the Official user guide.

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