Open Source C File Managers for BSD

An extremly fast and lightweight file manager which features tabbed browsing and user-friendly interface

Grsync is used to synchronize folders, files and make backups. It is a rsync GUI (Graphical User Interface).

BorgBackup or Borg for short is a deduplicating backup program that also supports compression and authenticated encryption. It provides a secure and efficient way to backup data, and is ideal for daily backups and backups to not fully tested targets.

Vifm is a file manager with curses interface, which provides Vim-like environment for managing objects within file systems, extended with some useful ideas from mutt. If you use Vim, Vifm gives you complete keyboard control over your files without having to learn a new set of commands.

Duff is a Unix command-line utility for quickly finding duplicates in a given set of files. Duff is written in C and should build and run on most modern Unices.

pesconvert is a command-line utility for converting Brother PES embroidery files into more accessible formats for viewing or further processing. It parses stitch commands, color changes, and frame boundaries from the binary PES structure and reconstructs the path of the needle across the canvas. The tool emits vector-friendly output so you can inspect or scale designs without losing detail, making it handy for previewing patterns or preparing them for other software. Because the PES format encodes jumps, trims, and thread changes, the converter normalizes these events into a clean sequence of segments. The implementation favors clarity so hobbyists can understand and extend it for their own machine workflows. It’s a practical bridge between proprietary embroidery design files and open tooling.

FastDFS is an open source high performance DFS ( distributed file system ). It's major functions include: file storing, file syncing and file accessing, and design for high capacity and load balancing.

Tux Commander is an open-source file manager with 2 panels side by side written for GTK2.

TreeSize for Unix shows the space used by each folder on your disk(s), sorted by size. It can be useful to assist in obtaining more free space. Basically a graphical version of du, with a much better interface than xdu, more practical than Filelight.

Oftentimes it is desirable to exclusively change a few specific components of a file's modification, access, or change time. However, the method provided by the conventional touch utility appears inadequate for this basic task. More than that, easily modifying a file's change time is not possible at all. Stroke is a small tool that offers a solution by providing a user with an extended command line interface that allows her to utilize an easy syntax to dynamically specify certain date and time components to be altered. All in all stroke can be seen as a potent alternative to touch that leaves a user with more options.

OCaml-Magic is an OCaml (http://caml.inria.fr/) binding for libmagic (to determine the type of files).

MToolsFM is a GUI frontend for mtools and it has the basic functionality of a file manager.

Fpart is a tool that helps you sort file trees and pack them into bags (called "partitions"). It is developped in C and available under the BSD license. It splits a list of directories and file trees into a certain number of partitions, trying to produce partitions with the same size and number of files. It can also produce partitions with a given number of files or a limited size. Once generated, partitions are either printed as file lists to stdout (default) or to files. Those lists can then be used by third party programs. Fpart also includes a live mode, which allows it to crawl very large filesystems and produce partitions in live. Hooks are available to act on those partitions (e.g. immediatly start a transfer using rsync(1)) without having to wait for the filesystem traversal job to be finished. Used this way, fpart can be seen as a powerful data migration tool.

lxSplit is a tool for splitting files and joining the splitted files on unix-like platforms. It is fully compatible with hjsplit, a tool which is available for other operating systems.

Radmind is a suite of Unix command-line tools and a server designed to remotely administer the file systems of multiple Unix machines. For Mac OS X, there's also a graphical interface.

XFile is a compact file manager for Unix and alike systems running X11. It presents the file system as is, without imaginary locations, trashcans etc. XFile uses its own file type/association database in typical Unix/RC like syntax, which is easily editable. Mounting support for file systems defined in fstab, and integration with mount daemons that manage a dedicated media directory is also included. XFile is easily configurable and customizable with X resources, and has no dependencies, save for X and Motif. Documentation and more on the project homepage: https://fastestcode.org/xfile.html

pam_mount is a Pluggable Authentication Module that can mount volumes for a user session (login). Supports mounting local filesystems of any kind the normal mount utility supports, with extra code to better support CIFS, FUSE, various crypto, and more.

Policy engine and reporting tool for large file systems. It maintains a replicate of filesystem medatada in a database that can be queried at will. It makes it possible to schedule mass action on filesystem entries by defining attribute-based policies, provides fast 'find' and 'du' enhanced clones, gives to administrators an overall view of filesystem contents through its web UI and command line tools. It supports any POSIX filesystem and implements advanced features for Lustre filesystems (list/purge files per OST or pool, read MDT changelogs...)

A file manager for the Unix terminal. Unlike most file managers out there, based on the TUI, CliFM is entirely based on command-line. It is also ultra-lightweight, lightning fast, extensible, and written in C.

A shell command (binary executable) allowing the manipulation of the extended attributes of a file. Extended attributes allow the arbitrary association of name:data (i.e., key-value) pairs with file system objects.

DavUtils is a collection of easy to use WebDAV client tools. The built-in client-side encryption allows you to encrypt and decrypt files on the fly with AES. Currently two command line tools are available: dav is a multipurpose WebDAV client that can be used like the standard unix tools ls, mkdir and rm. The other tool is dav-sync that can synchronize local files with a WebDAV server. It is very flexible and configurable and has advanced data safety features to prevent data loss. The integrated client-side AES encryption makes it secure to use public clouds.

Stores and retrieves files in an encrypted archive. Also manages files stored on CDs and DVDs. Other functions are incomplete. PLEASE NOTE: you need to download both an Objectify release and a Public Objects release.

OpenBSD Packages Manager (OPM) is a simple packages manager for OpenBSD.

Cat‘sEyE, a file browser for Linux/Unix using GTK 2. 2-sided, tabbed, flexible, powerful, fast. You will never see icons in its views! - Ok, well, now you CAN ENABLE a picture preview. But that's it!

A program to segment files into customizable smaller sections/parts for easier transfer.