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    Canop/broot

    A new way to see and navigate directory trees

    13.1K stars
    328 forks
    58 GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 8, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 7 days ago, with 126 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #87 in the weekly ranking the week of Sep 21, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides an interactive terminal tool to navigate, search, and manipulate directory trees efficiently.
    • Offers fast, fuzzy-search navigation with integrated file operations and customizable commands, surpassing traditional tree and ls tools.
    • Use for quickly locating and changing directories with minimal keystrokes in large or complex file systems.
    • Use for managing files visually with multi-panel views, enabling easy copy, move, and preview operations within the terminal.
    • Use for inspecting disk usage and git statuses directly in the file tree to streamline cleanup and version control workflows.

    Should you depend on it?

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    License

    MIT

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.

    Community files

    • README: present
    • Contributing guide: present

    Watch-outs

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    From the README

    Broot is a better way to navigate directories, find files, and launch commands.

    Hit br -s

    Notice the unlisted?

    That's what makes it usable where the old tree command would produce pages of output.

    .gitignore files are properly dealt with to put unwanted files out of your way.

    As you sometimes want to see gitignored files, or hidden ones, you'll soon get used to the alti and alth shortcuts to toggle those visibilities.

    (you can ignore them though, see documentation).

    type a few letters

    Hit altenter and you're back to the terminal in the desired location.

    This way, you can navigate to a directory with the minimum amount of keystrokes, even if you don't exactly remember where it is.

    Broot is fast and doesn't block (any keystroke interrupts the current search to start the next one).

    Excerpt from the Canop/broot README on GitHub (MIT license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

    Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots

    Forks

    328+20

    Open issues

    103-144

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