TL;DR — Quick Summary

yazi is a blazing fast terminal file manager with async I/O, image previews, and plugin support. Navigate, preview, and manage files — all from the terminal.

yazi manages files fast. Async I/O, image previews, plugins — the modern terminal file manager.

Installation

# macOS
brew install yazi ffmpegthumbnailer unar jq poppler fd ripgrep fzf zoxide

# Cargo
cargo install yazi-fm yazi-cli

Usage

# Launch file manager
yazi

# Open in specific directory
yazi ~/projects

# Keybindings:
# h/l → parent/child directory
# j/k → up/down
# Enter → open file
# Space → select file
# d → delete
# r → rename
# / → search
# t → new tab
# q → quit

Summary

  • yazi is an async terminal file manager
  • Image previews in modern terminals
  • Lua plugin system for extensibility
  • Tabs, bulk rename, bookmarks
  • Written in Rust — blazing fast navigation