SpaceFM
SpaceFM is a multi-paned tabbed file manager for Linux with built-in VFS, optional udisks-based device manager, customizable menu system, and bash integration.
A fork of legacy PCManFM.
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Blast is a menu bar app that keeps track of recently used files, applications, &c. so you can find, filter and (re)open them quickly.
Detox
Detox is a utility designed to clean up filenames. It replaces difficult to work with characters, such as spaces, with standard equivalents. It will also clean up filenames with UTF-8 or Latin-1 (or CP-1252) characters in them.
Thanks, battez.
Viewglob is a sort of graphical file-management assistant thingy for the Linux command line: as you type commands in a terminal, it shows a view of the directory you’re in, and gives visual feedback.
Intriguing idea, and probably quite handy if you’re just beginning to find your way around using the command line.
Hygeia
A Hazel-like file organizer for Windows—it performs actions on files according to rules you define.
DropCopy
Reader tj got in touch to suggest DropCopy, saying:
The UI is a simple transparent circle that you position somewhere on your Desktop. Drag a file to it and you’ll get a popup showing all of the Macs on your LAN running Dropcopy. If there’s only one, just let the file go and it will copy it. If there’s more than one, drag it to the name of the host you want to use. Voilà.
If you’re a fan of the mouse, this looks like a wonderful little utility.
OneWay
A contextual FTP, SFTP uploader for Mac OS X. Upload files directly from Finder. Save frequently used locations in your Context Menu for quick access. Simply Select the Files or Folders you want to upload and then ctrl+click to send them anywhere.
A clever, lightweight way to streamline the process of transferring files over SFTP.
Dropbox Anywhere
I haven’t posted about Dropbox before because, well, I assume most of you already use it.
The service is so simple and useful that I tend to forget it’s there, taking for granted the fact that my files are available to me on all my devices, and in the cloud.
With yesterday’s announcement of iPad and Android apps, a new API for mobile developers, a slew of third party partner apps and imminent Blackberry support, Dropbox just got a lot more useful to a lot more people.
In fact, it’s well on its way to becoming the de facto standard for cross-platform file synchronisation and sharing.
Thunar has been designed from the ground up to be fast and easy-to-use. Its user interface is clean and intuitive, and does not include any confusing or useless options. Thunar is fast and responsive with a good start up time and directory load time.
Familiar to those who use the Xfce desktop environment on BSD or Linux, Thunar is well worth trying as a replacement for heavier file managers like Gnome’s Nautilus, particularly on older hardware.
See also
Ranger
CLEX
CLEX (pronounced KLEKS) is a file manager with a full-screen user interface. It displays directory contents including the file status details and provides features like command history, filename insertion, or name completion in order to help users to create commands to be executed by the shell. There are no built-in commands, CLEX is an add-on to your favorite shell.
Emphasis mine.
abcde
abcde is a frontend command-line utility (actually, a shell script) that grabs tracks off a CD, encodes them to ogg or mp3 format, and tags them, all in one go.
