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ranger

text-based file manager for Unix-like systems
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Summary

ranger is a file manager[1]. ranger draws 292 Wikipedia views per month (file manager category, ranking #9 of 15).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: console application[3], free software[4]
  • Copyright license: GNU General Public License v3.0 or later[5]
  • Programmed in: Python[6]
  • Operating system: GNU/Linux[7], BSD[8], Unix-like operating system[9]
  • Software version identifier: 1.8.1[10], 1.9.0b6[11], 1.9.0[12], 1.9.1[13], 0.1.0[14], 0.2.0[15], 0.2.1[16], 0.2.2[17], 0.2.3[18], 0.2.4[19], 0.2.5[20], 0.2.6[21], 1.0.1[22], 1.0.2[23]
  • Commons category: Ranger (file manager)[24]
  • Inception: November 16, 2009[25]
  • Official website: https://ranger.github.io/[26], https://ranger.fm[27]
  • Inspired by: Vi[28]
  • Source code repository URL: https://github.com/ranger/ranger[29]
  • Issue tracker URL: https://github.com/ranger/ranger/issues[30]
  • GUI toolkit or framework: ncurses[31]
  • Depends on software: ncurses[32], Python[33], terminal pager[34]
  • IRC channel URL: irc://freenode.net/ranger[35]
  • Software quality assurance: continuous integration[36]
  • Copyright status: copyrighted[37]

Why It Matters

ranger is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[38]

Related Entities

BSD emacs-dirvish free software Python ranger.el Unix-like operating system

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . ranger.nongnu.org. Retrieved . ranger.nongnu.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . ranger.github.io. Retrieved . ranger.github.io. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . github.com. github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . api.github.com. Retrieved . api.github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . api.github.com. Retrieved . api.github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . ranger.nongnu.org. Retrieved . ranger.nongnu.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . ranger.nongnu.org. Retrieved . ranger.nongnu.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . ranger.nongnu.org. Retrieved . ranger.nongnu.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [38] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 1d ago · Tcit · 2026-10-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Copyright license → GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
    Operating system → GNU/Linux, BSD, Unix-like operating system
    Website → —
    Instance of → file manager, console application, free software
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