Linux @lemmy.ml christos @lemmy.world 9 mo. ago

Basht, a tui file manager bash script that supports image previews (among other features)

This tui file manager bash script, provides image preview, theme selection, smooth directory navigation, opening files with default and other programs and easy configuring of keybindings. It uses fzf to navigate to and select files and directories. Image rendering can be done with the use of ueberzugpp, ueberzug, kitty terminal or chafa.

The script also provides content preview for directories, and text files:

As one can see in the screenshots, thanks to Nerd Fonts, each type of selection (directory, text file, office document, image file etc) is represented with the respective symbol.

Configuring of preferences can be done through editing a psv file.

Any feedback / suggestion will be appreciated.

Linux @lemmy.world christos @lemmy.world 9 mo. ago

Basht, a tui file manager bash script that supports image previews (among other features)

Kitty Terminal Emulator @midwest.social christos @lemmy.world 9 mo. ago

Basht, a tui file manager bash script that supports image previews (among other features)

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You still need a terminal emulator capable of displaying images, though, right? Like Kitty, Allacrity won't do the trick.
- Kitty supports images, not sure about alacritty, although there are many competing protocols for image display in a terminal emulator, so it could be that it just doesn't support a particular program.
- idk, i've heard that ranger works in alacritty with image previews, so this could too.
Is there a reason to use this over Ranger? Nice work still
- There is, if you like fzf, or if you are not comfortable with vim keybindings. Still, Ranger is awesome.
- Or Yazi.
  
  or nnn
Hey, curious why your themes need to be dot txt files?
- Well, there is just one themes.txt file, created inside .config/basht/ directory. There is no particular reason why it should not be a .txt. Would you suggest another solution?
  
  .txt would imply the file is just some prose. A theme file might be better named with a .theme extension, so as to better communicate the nature of the file.
  
  If you dev for Linux, you don't need a file extension for text files!
500 lines of bash script feels like one rm -rf away from disaster.

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- Fear not, there are no scary commands in this script.

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