Parasol

Parasol is a terminal-based (TUI) file explorer and shell.

With Parasol, you can navigate your filesystem, perform file operations, view available disk devices, measure file and directory sizes, execute files, open files with your preferred applications, and run its own built-in shell either alongside the file explorer or standalone.

Download

You can download the latest release of Parasol here.

Download parasol.jar and run it with java -jar parasol.jar.

For a help screen and list of commands, run Parasol with -h or --help command-line argument or type help while running Parasol.

Requirements

• Java 11 or newer
• xdg-utils (for Unix-like systems only) (optional)

Note: for xdg-utils to be optional on unix-like system you must set an appropriate command/program for each file extension in ~/.config/parasol/config.parasol

Officially tested systems:

• Linux-based
• FreeBSD
• Haiku

Systems that should work:

• Other BSD systems (OpenBSD, NetBSD, etc)
• MacOS
• Windows

Building Parasol

Using Yuuka

yuuka package

With a Unix-like shell:

mkdir build
javac src/*.java src/*/*.java
cd src
jar cfe ../build/parasol.jar main *.class */*.class
cd ..