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 configurable file management experience.

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

Before getting started, ensure that the following dependencies are installed on your system:

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

Install with paru or your favorite AUR helper:

paru -S yazi jq unarchiver ffmpegthumbnailer fd ripgrep fzf zoxide

Install the dependencies with Homebrew:

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

And download the latest release from here. Or you can install Yazi with cargo:

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

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

yazi

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

• Add example config for general usage, currently please see my another repo instead
• Integration with fzf, zoxide for fast directory navigation
• Integration with fd, rg for fuzzy file searching
• Documentation of commands and options
• Support for Überzug++ for image previews with X11/wayland environment
• Batch renaming support

Yazi is MIT licensed.