I built a tool for interactive navigation in the terminal that is intended to replace the all-too-familiar cycle of `ls` to view a directory, followed by `cd`, then `ls`, and repeat.
nav is a terminal filesystem explorer built for interactive `ls` workflows. The key features I wanted to enable are interactivity and search without feeling like I'm using anything other than `ls`. nav supports common `ls` options/flags, as well as tab completion, and might expand its support for less common options in the future. These options exist as both CLI flags and interactive toggles.
nav works as a standalone tool or in a bash/zsh pipe or subshell to e.g., change directories, copy a file name to the clipboard, etc. For example, I use the simple functions from the README in my .zshrc for interactive `cd` and copy-to-clipboard workflows.
nav was inspired by the discussion of the excellent `walk` [0] tool and was written from the ground up to support its `ls`-centric interactive feature set. I hope you might find it useful and I'd love to take any feedback or suggestions that might come to mind!
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37220828
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