Yazi - ⚡️ Blazing Fast Terminal File Manager

Yazi ("duck" in Chinese) is a terminal file manager written in Rust, based on non-blocking async I/O. It aims to provide an efficient, user-friendly, and customizable file management experience.

💫 A new article explaining its internal workings: Why Yazi Fast?

• 🚀 Full Asynchronous Support: All I/O operations are asynchronous, CPU tasks are spread across multiple threads, making the most of available resources.
• 💪 Powerful Async Task Scheduling and Management: Provides real-time progress updates, task cancellation, and internal task priority assignment.
• 🖼️ Built-in Support for Multiple Image Protocols: Also integrated with Überzug++, covering almost all terminals.
• 🌟 Built-in Code Highlighting and Image Encoding: Combined with the pre-caching mechanism, greatly accelerates image and normal file loading.
• 🧰 Integration with fd, rg, fzf, zoxide
• 💫 Vim-like Input component, and Select component
• 🏷️ Multi-Tab Support, Scrollable Preview (for videos, PDFs, archives, directories, code, etc.)
• 🔄 Batch Renaming, Visual Mode, File Chooser
• 🎨 Theme System, Custom Layouts, Trash Bin, CSI u
• ... and more!

https://github.com/sxyazi/yazi/assets/17523360/d5d8427b-e0f3-4552-ae1a-553ba1a7d57e

⚠️ Note: Yazi is currently in active development and may be unstable. The API is subject to change without prior notice.

Prerequisites

• nerd-fonts (optional)
• ffmpegthumbnailer (optional, for video thumbnails)
• unar (optional, for archive preview)
• jq (optional, for JSON preview)
• poppler (optional, for PDF preview)
• fd (optional, for file searching)
• rg (optional, for file content searching)
• fzf (optional, for directory jumping)
• zoxide (optional, for directory jumping)

Installation

Arch Linux

Install with paru or your favorite AUR helper:

paru -S yazi ffmpegthumbnailer unarchiver jq poppler fd ripgrep fzf zoxide

Or, you can replace yazi with yazi-bin package if you want pre-built binary instead of compiling by yourself.

macOS

Install Yazi and its dependencies with Homebrew:

brew install yazi ffmpegthumbnailer unar jq poppler fd ripgrep fzf zoxide
brew tap homebrew/cask-fonts && brew install --cask font-symbols-only-nerd-font

If you prefer to use the most recent code, use --HEAD flag:

brew install yazi --HEAD

Or you can install Yazi via cargo:

cargo install --git https://github.com/sxyazi/yazi.git

Nix

The Nix package of Yazi is available. Nix users can install Yazi via:

# On NixOS:
nix-env -iA nixos.yazi

# On Non NixOS:
nix-env -iA nixpkgs.yazi

Or add the following to your configuration:

# configuration.nix
environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
	yazi
];

You can also manage Yazi's configuration using the home-manager.

Windows

See Windows Installation Guide.

Build from source

Execute the following commands to clone the project and build Yazi:

git clone https://github.com/sxyazi/yazi.git
cd yazi
cargo build --release

Then, you can run:

./target/release/yazi

Usage

yazi

There is a wrapper of yazi, that provides the ability to change the current working directory when yazi exiting, feel free to use it:

function ya() {
	tmp="$(mktemp -t "yazi-cwd.XXXXX")"
	yazi --cwd-file="$tmp"
	if cwd="$(cat -- "$tmp")" && [ -n "$cwd" ] && [ "$cwd" != "$PWD" ]; then
		cd -- "$cwd"
	fi
	rm -f -- "$tmp"
}

Configuration

If you want to use your own config, copy the config folder to ~/.config/yazi, and modify it as you like.

The documentation of all available options

Discussion

• Discord Server (English mainly): https://discord.gg/qfADduSdJu
• Telegram Group (Chinese mainly): https://t.me/yazi_rs

Image Preview

Platform	Protocol	Support
Kitty	Terminal graphics protocol	✅ Built-in
WezTerm	Terminal graphics protocol	✅ Built-in
Konsole	Terminal graphics protocol	✅ Built-in
iTerm2	Inline images protocol	✅ Built-in
Mintty (Git Bash)	Inline images protocol	✅ Built-in
Hyper	Sixel graphics format	✅ Built-in
foot	Sixel graphics format	✅ Built-in
Black Box	Sixel graphics format	✅ Built-in
X11 / Wayland	Window system protocol	☑️ Überzug++ required
Fallback	Chafa	☑️ Überzug++ required

Yazi automatically selects the appropriate preview method for you, based on the priority from top to bottom. That's relying on the $TERM, $TERM_PROGRAM, and $XDG_SESSION_TYPE variables, make sure you don't overwrite them by mistake!

For instance, if your terminal is Alacritty, which doesn't support displaying images itself, but you are running on an X11/Wayland environment, it will automatically use the "Window system protocol" to display images -- this requires you to have Überzug++ installed.

Here is a guide for tmux users: Image preview within tmux

TODO

See Feature requests for more details.

License

Yazi is MIT licensed.