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sharkdp/fd

A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#cli #command-line #filesystem #hacktoberfest #regex #rust

Updated: 2026-10-07
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2017-05-09
History: 9 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 203 open

44,784

stars

Forks: 1,154
Commits: 2,044 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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sxyazi/yazi

💥 Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O.

AI dev

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#android #asyncio #cli #command-line #concurrency #cross-platform

Updated: 2026-10-05
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2023-07-08
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 64 open

42,635

stars

Forks: 1,039
Commits: 1,550 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

jarun/nnn

n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager

Stack

GitHub topics

#android #batch-rename #c #cli #command-line #developer-tools

Updated: 2026-10-07
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2014-10-07
History: 9 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 1 open

22,058

stars

Forks: 825
Commits: 4,688 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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wting/autojump

A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line

Stack

Python

GitHub topics

#autojump #command-line-tool #filesystem #python

Updated: 2025-02-27
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2008-04-21
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 232 open

16,959

stars

Forks: 708
Commits: 845 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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muesli/duf

Disk Usage/Free Utility - a better 'df' alternative

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#cli #df #disk-space #disk-usage #filesystem #freebsd

Updated: 2026-01-13
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2020-09-20
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 81 open

15,301

stars

Forks: 466
Commits: 281 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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juicedata/juicefs

JuiceFS is a distributed POSIX file system built on top of Redis and S3.

AI dev

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules Maven npm

GitHub topics

#bigdata #cloud-native #distributed-systems #filesystem #go #golang

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2021-01-08
History: 9 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 246 open

14,542

stars

Forks: 1,315
Commits: 4,634 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

thephpleague/flysystem

Abstraction for local and remote filesystems

Stack

PHP Composer

GitHub topics

#filesystem #filesystem-library #php #thephpleague

Updated: 2026-10-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-12-15
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 106 open

13,587

stars

Forks: 864
Commits: 1,296 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

jprichardson/node-fs-extra

Node.js: extra methods for the fs object like copy(), remove(), mkdirs()

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#copy #delete #filesystem #javascript #move #nodejs

Updated: 2026-09-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-11-16
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 15 open

9,589

stars

Forks: 792
Commits: 1,147 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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activeloopai/deeplake

Deeplake is AI Data Runtime for Agents. It provides serverless postgres with a multimodal datalake, enabling scalable retrieval and training.

Stack

C++ pytest CMake pip vcpkg

GitHub topics

#agent #agentic-rag #ai #clawbot #computer-vision #datalake

Updated: 2026-05-21
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2019-08-09
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 66 open

9,229

stars

Forks: 723
Commits: 9,411 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

agent-infra/sandbox

All-in-One Sandbox for AI Agents that combines Browser, Shell, File, MCP and VSCode Server in a single Docker container.

AI dev

Stack

Python LangChain React Starlette Tailwind CSS npm PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#agent #all-in-one #browser #filesystem #mcp #sandbox

Updated: 2026-08-25
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2025-09-10
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 70 open

5,861

stars

Forks: 520
Commits: 125 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

gluster/glusterfs

Gluster Filesystem : Build your distributed storage in minutes

Stack

C pip

GitHub topics

#c #distributed-systems #erasure-coding #filesystem #fuse-filesystem #gluster

Updated: 2026-09-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2006-02-18
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 328 open

5,259

stars

Forks: 1,106
Commits: 16,883 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

sayanarijit/xplr

A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#cli #command-line #console #developer-tools #file-explorer #file-launcher

Updated: 2026-09-23
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2021-03-01
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 13 open

4,837

stars

Forks: 96
Commits: 961 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

jhspetersson/fselect

Find files with SQL-like queries

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#cli #command-line #files #filesystem #find #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-09-05
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2018-01-26
History: 12 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 6 open

4,464

stars

Forks: 87
Commits: 1,446 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

peak/s5cmd

Parallel S3 and local filesystem execution tool.

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#aws #cli #filesystem #go #s3 #s5cmd

Updated: 2025-06-13
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-11-15
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 200 open

4,208

stars

Forks: 349
Commits: 548 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

shrinerb/shrine

File Attachment toolkit for Ruby applications

Stack

Ruby React Bundler npm

GitHub topics

#attachment #background-jobs #direct-upload #file-upload #filesystem #metadata

Updated: 2026-09-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-09-03
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

3,285

stars

Forks: 277
Commits: 2,429 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

filegator/filegator

Powerful Multi-User File Manager

Stack

PHP Symfony Vue Composer npm

GitHub topics

#amazon-s3 #file #file-manager #filemanager #files #fileserver

Updated: 2026-09-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2019-06-13
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 221 open

3,072

stars

Forks: 450
Commits: 635 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

grantjenks/python-diskcache

Python disk-backed cache (Django-compatible). Faster than Redis and Memcached. Pure-Python.

Stack

Python Django pytest pip

GitHub topics

#cache #filesystem #key-value-store #persistence #python

Updated: 2024-08-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-02-03
History: 10 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 85 open

2,913

stars

Forks: 188
Commits: 736 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

samuelcolvin/watchfiles

Simple, modern and fast file watching and code reload for Python, written in Rust

Stack

Python pytest Cargo uv

GitHub topics

#asyncio #filesystem #inotify #inotifywatch #notify #python

Updated: 2026-09-21
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-10-13
History: 10 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 48 open

2,549

stars

Forks: 148
Commits: 305 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

KnpLabs/Gaufrette

PHP library that provides a filesystem abstraction layer − will be a feast for your files!

Stack

PHP Composer

GitHub topics

#filesystem #gaufrette #hacktoberfest #php

Updated: 2026-07-22
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-01-18
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 83 open

2,466

stars

Forks: 352
Commits: 1,052 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

moosefs/moosefs

MooseFS Distributed Storage – Open Source, Petabyte, Fault-Tolerant, Highly Performing, Scalable Network Distributed File System / Software-Defined Storage

Stack

GitHub topics

#backup #block-storage #distributed-computing #distributed-file-system #distributed-storage #ditributed-systems

Updated: 2026-05-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-03-18
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 194 open

2,006

stars

Forks: 241
Commits: 758 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

dragonflyoss/nydus

Nydus - a reliable, high-performance on-demand load filesytem framework for container image and data distribution.

AI dev

Stack

Rust Axum gRPC Go Rocket Cargo Go modules

GitHub topics

#accelerator #container #container-image #containerd #docker #filesystem

Updated: 2026-09-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-01-20
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 28 open

1,669

stars

Forks: 273
Commits: 3,627 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

bovigo/vfsStream

vfsStream is a stream wrapper for a virtual file system that may be helpful in unit tests to mock the real file system. It can be used with any unit test framework, like PHPUnit or SimpleTest.

Stack

PHP Symfony Composer

GitHub topics

#filesystem #php #testing #vfsstream

Updated: 2024-08-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-12-29
History: 1 history point
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 40 open

1,440

stars

Forks: 105
Commits: 587 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

nachoparker/dutree

a tool to analyze file system usage written in Rust

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#filesystem #rust

Updated: 2022-06-29
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-03-25
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 22 open

877

stars

Forks: 46
Commits: 30 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

PDF-Archiver/PDF-Archiver

A tool for tagging files and archiving tasks.

AI dev

Stack

Swift Swift Package Manager

GitHub topics

#archive #archiving #archivist #archivist-toolkit #conventions #filesystem

Updated: 2026-09-22
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2018-08-24
History: 14 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 6 open

344

stars

Forks: 26
Commits: 1,705 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

moxystudio/node-proper-lockfile

An inter-process and inter-machine lockfile utility that works on a local or network file system.

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#atomic #cross-process #filesystem #lock #lockfile #nodejs

Updated: 2023-10-25
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-07-12
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 21 open

285

stars

Forks: 49
Commits: 193 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

8b-is/smart-tree

Smart Tree: not just a tree, a philosophy. A context-aware, AI-crafted replacement for 20+ tools with MEM8 quantum compression, semantic search, AST-smart editing, and partnership memory. Crafted with care by human + AI—accept no knock-offs.

AI dev

Stack

Rust Axum FastAPI pytest Cargo npm pip

GitHub topics

#ai #analysis #anthropic #blazingly-fast #claude #claude-code

Updated: 2026-09-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-09-08
History: 10 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 0 open

268

stars

Forks: 27
Commits: 387 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

nspragg/filehound

Flexible and fluent interface for searching the file system

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#file #filesystem #fluent-interface #promise

Updated: 2022-06-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-03-04
History: 1 history point
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

222

stars

Forks: 16
Commits: 361 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

Water-Run/treepp

tree++: A much better Windows `tree` command—more features, faster performance, and diff-level compatibility with the original `tree`. Implemented in Rust.

Archived

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#cli #command-line-tool #developer-tools #directory-tree #filesystem #gitignore

Updated: 2026-08-01
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2025-12-09
History: 8 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 0 open

stars

Forks: 1
Commits: 50 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

kthchew/ExtendFS

A ext2, ext3 & ext4 file system driver for Mac to mount Linux disks with read-only access using FSKit

Stack

Swift Swift Package Manager

GitHub topics

#disk #drive #ext2 #ext3 #ext4 #ext4-filesystem

Updated: 2026-09-07
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2025-05-15
History: 9 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1 open

stars

Forks: 7
Commits: 185 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

efforthye/fast-filesystem-mcp

A high-performance Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides secure filesystem access for Claude and other AI assistants.

Stack

TypeScript Express pnpm

GitHub topics

#ai-assistant #ai-tools #anthropic #automation #backup #claude

Updated: 2026-05-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2025-03-08
History: 9 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 13 open

stars

Forks: 22
Commits: 193 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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