pfm is a terminal (curses)-based file manager written in Perl, based on PFM.COM for MS-DOS (originally by Paul Culley and Henk de Heer). Permission to use the original name was kindly granted by the original authors.
Some of its features:
- most commands are invoked with only one or two keypresses
- colored filenames according to extension or type
- support for executing user-defined commands (including wildcards) with only two keystrokes
- a single-file and multiple-file mode
- multilevel sorting
- use of oldmarks and newmarks for executing multiple commands on the same group of files
- supports bookmarks for directories
- highly configurable through its config file
- supports commandline history and completion through use of the readline library
- integration with versioning tools (git, subversion, CVS, Bazaar, Mercurial).
For more documentation, see the manual page.
Bugs fixed in 2.12.3:
- fixed bug in counting the number of running jobs
- fixed bug with CHLD signal handler on Darwin
- fixed documentation of event names fired by jobs
- fixed:
Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry at Term/ReadLine/Gnu.pmafter upgrade of Term::ReadLine::Gnu from 1.20 to 1.24 - fixed: handling a cd command that uses environment variables in c(O)mmand
New features in 2.12.3:
- support for the aufs layered filesystem
- support for the newer versions of subversion
- MIME types for .xz and .txz.
- display list of escapes in (C)opy, (R)ename, (L)ink, tar(G)et and (P)rint.
- shift-F8 for easy removal of oldmarks and newmarks.
=0escape (ln target path)- expand <prefix>
=8<suffix> to each of the marked filenames with the provided prefix and suffix applied.
Download the latest version (v2.12.6).
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms described by the GNU General Public License version 2.
For hobbyists: the original MS-DOS binary is still available.
