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NNN(1) General Commands Manual NNN(1)

NAME

nnn — free, fast, friendly file browser

SYNOPSIS

nnn [-d] [dir]

DESCRIPTION

nnn (Noice is Not Noice) is a fork of the noice terminal file browser with improved desktop integration, navigation, disk usage analyzer mode, comprehensive file details and much more. It remains a simple and efficient file browser that stays out of your way.

nnn defaults to the current directory if dir is not specified.

nnn supports both vi-like and emacs-like key bindings in the default configuration. The default key bindings are listed below.

Move to previous entry
Move to next entry
Scroll up half a page
Scroll down half a page
Move to the first entry
Move to the last entry
Open file or enter directory
Back up one directory level
Change to the HOME directory
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Change to the last visited directory
Open directory in desktop file manager
Change filter (more information below)
Change into the given directory
Toggle detail view
Toggle current file details screen
Toggle hide .dot files
Toggle sort by file size
Toggle disk usage analyzer mode
Toggle sort by time modified
Spawn SHELL in PWD (fallback sh)
Run the system top utility.
Open current entry in EDITOR (fallback vi)
Open current entry in PAGER (fallback less)
Invoke file name copier
Force a redraw
Toggle help screen
Quit

Backing up one directory level will set the cursor position at the directory you came out of.

nnn supports the following options:

-d
open in detail view mode

-v
show version and exit

CONFIGURATION

nnn is configured by modifying config.h and recompiling the code.

See the environment and examples sections below for more options and information.

FILTERS

Filters support regexes to display only the matched entries in the current directory view. This effectively allows searching through the directory tree for a particular entry.

Filters do not stack on top of each other. They are applied anew every time.

An empty filter expression resets the filter.

If nnn is invoked as root the default filter will also match hidden files.

ENVIRONMENT

The SHELL, EDITOR and PAGER environment variables take precedence when dealing with the !, e and p commands respectively.

NNN_DE_FILE_MANAGER: set to a desktop file manager to open the current directory with.

NNN_OPENER: set to your desktop environment's default mime opener to override all custom mime associations.
Examples: xdg-open, gnome-open, gvfs-open.

NNN_FALLBACK_OPENER: set to your desktop environment's default mime opener to use as a fallback when no association is set for a file type. Custom associations are listed in the EXAMPLES section below.

NNN_COPIER: set to a clipboard copier script. For example, on Linux:

        -------------------------------------
        #!/bin/sh

        echo -n $1 | xsel --clipboard --input
        -------------------------------------

EXAMPLES

The following example shows one possible configuration for file associations which is also the default if environment variable NNN_OPENER is not set:

        -----------------------------------------------
        struct assoc assocs[] = {
	        { "\.(c|cpp|h|txt|log|sh)$", "vi" },
	        { "\.(wma|mp3|ogg|flac)$", "mpv" },
	        { "\.pdf$", "zathura" },
        };
        -----------------------------------------------
Plain text files are opened with vi.


Any other file types are opened with the 'xdg-open' command.

KNOWN ISSUES

If you are using urxvt you might have to set backspacekey to DEC.

AUTHORS

Lazaros Koromilas <lostd@2f30.org>,
Dimitris Papastamos <sin@2f30.org>,
Arun Prakash Jana <engineerarun@gmail.com>.

HOME

https://github.com/jarun/nnn

April 13, 2017 Debian