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TUIFI Manager: A file manager, in the terminal, with file icons made out of ascii characters.

Because... why not?

Bryan Lunduke
Jun 20, 2022
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Behold! TUIFI Manager!

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“What in the heckatarnations am I looking at?!”

That, right there, is a file manager for the terminal. Written in Python (using an NCurses wrapper). That runs on Linux, Windows, & Mac.

… and, perhaps most interestingly, it displays icons for files and folders… built entirely out of ASCII characters.

Which — I mean, dang! — those icons look surprisingly good! Color me impressed!

You can grab TUIFI Manager from Github.

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Beardo Weirdo
Writes eljondy’s Notebook
Jun 22, 2022

Oh man! day after day, I keep finding pieces of software that shows we definitely went wrong somewhere and started unnecessarily bloat everything . One more program to work nicely with my old mono core 512mb of RAM lifebook laptop

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Bradford Morgan White
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Jun 20, 2022

This will be excellent on the DevTerm since those icons kind of remind me of very early GUIs.

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