litefm

A minimal two-pane file manager for the Linux terminal

• two independent panes side by side — copy / move from one into the other
• mouse support, marks, recursive search, chmod / chown
• one C file, only libc — no ncurses, no Rust, no Python (~45 KB binary)

Build

Needs only a C compiler + libc:

cc -O2 -Wall -o litefm litefm.c
chmod +x litefm
./litefm

Install (optional)

sudo cp litefm /usr/local/bin/

Usage

litefm                      # both panes start in the current directory
litefm ~/projekt ~/backup   # left pane, right pane

Editor

F4 / e opens the file in $LITEFM_EDITOR if set, otherwise in litefe if it is installed, then $EDITOR, nano, and finally vi.