Canop/broot
A new way to see and navigate directory trees
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
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?
License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.
License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
Watch-outs
No watch-outs from GStars' checks.
General guidance from repository metadata, not legal advice. How we score
From the README
Broot is a better way to navigate directories, find files, and launch commands.
Hit
br -sNotice the unlisted?
That's what makes it usable where the old
treecommand would produce pages of output.
.gitignorefiles 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).
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
328+20
Open issues
103-144
Compared with peers in CLI
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 8, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| morluto/rea | 450.0K | +22.9K | 75 | 16 days ago |
| mattpocock/skills | 320.9K | +9.5K | 75 | 12 days ago |
| vercel-labs/agent-desktop | 21.4K | +8.7K | 75 | 5 days ago |
| stablyai/orca | 121.4K | +6.7K | 75 | today |
| vercel-labs/agent-browser | 49.2K | +3.8K | 75 | 1 day ago |
| Canop/broot | 13.1K | — | 60 | 7 days ago |
| Category median | 121.4K | +8.7K | 75 | — |
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