Using yazi as File Manager

What is yazi

Yazi claims itself as a blazing fast terminal file written in Rust. In Linux, doing everything in terminal always make hackers happier. Compared to Windows, Linux ecosystem has abundant command line tools, which increasingly improve the productivity. Also staying fingers on the terminal and using less mouse can improve the productivity when typing things is the most common tasks for a hacker.

Install yazi

I am using homebrew as my package manager in Linux, so simply just input this command in terminal

brew install yazi

Use yazi

After installed, run this in terminal

yazi

Then yazi takes the control of terminal and displays the TUI.

Use keyboard to do the regular movement just like other GUI file managers. The good thing is that the default yazi setup configures a 3-sections layout that is like a IDE layout. The first column is the folder tree, the 2nd column is the file view, the leftmost column immediately display the file content when navigating them. Surprisingly, it has the code highlights. Cool!

And this is the first short blog about yazi installation and brief usage. I will explore more features and write new blogs about yazi.

Happy coding.