3648 stars · MIT (named in the About sidebar) · v1.13.0 (2025-02-19), shown on /releases/latest as '19 Feb' with no year and settled from the Go module index - twenty months old, with eleven commits unreleased on master · Track this in Scout
Walk through folders with arrow keys, and leave the terminal in the folder you stopped at.
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What we found when we opened it. Every bar is one fact, with its date.
Last code pushed 6 Jan 2026, 9 months before this check.
Latest release v1.13.0 on 19 Feb 2025.
Public since December 2021, a little over 4 years.
3,648 stars and 110 forks.
0 commits and 0 new issues in the last 90 days.
28 contributors. No pull requests merged in 90 days; changes go in directly.
No security policy file says how to report a problem. No published security advisories.
How the bars are scored
- Alive. Days since the last code push: a week or less 100, a month 90, three months 70, six months 50, a year 30, eighteen months 15, older 0.
- Releases. Age of the latest GitHub release, on a similar scale; no bar when the project publishes no releases.
- Maturity. Age of the project: eight years 100, five 90, three 70, two 55, one 40, six months 25, younger 10.
- Adoption. Stars on a log scale: 100,000 stars is 100, 10,000 is 80, 1,000 is 60, 100 is 40.
- Activity. Commits in the last 90 days: 300 or more 100, 100 85, 30 65, 10 45, any 25.
- Community. People who have contributed: 100 or more 100, 30 80, 10 60, 5 40, 2 25, one 10.
- Security. A published security policy 80, none 40; published advisories are listed, not scored.
Checked by Repo Radar on 25 Oct 2026 from the repository on GitHub. Covered in Edition 61.
▶Repo detailsthe review · specs · pros & cons · install
What it does
It lists the current folder and reads your key presses: arrows or hjkl to move, enter to go in, backspace to go up. Space previews the highlighted file, including images, with nothing extra installed. A slash starts a fuzzy search that narrows the list as you type, dd deletes with u to undo, and . shows hidden files. There are 13 key bindings and 6 command-line flags in total. When you quit, it prints the folder you ended on, and a small shell function feeds that to cd — which is how the terminal ends up there. Settings are environment variables only: the editor to open files with, a per-extension list of commands, the delete command, and two appearance options. There is no configuration file, no copying, no moving, no renaming, no selecting several files, and no plugins. The whole program is one small Go binary.
Why it matters
Who it suits. Anyone who spends time in a terminal and keeps mistyping folder names. It fits someone who wants exactly this one behaviour and nothing else, which is the honest appeal of a tool with 13 bindings. Skip it if files need to be copied, moved or renamed, because none of that exists here, and skip it if a fuller file manager is already in use.
Verdict. Five minutes, with one piece of friction worth knowing in advance: it does not work as installed. The package gives a program called walk that prints a path, and the behaviour the documentation advertises needs a shell function called lk added to a shell startup file by hand. Anyone who installs it, runs walk, and sees nothing happen has hit exactly that. The dates are the other thing to say plainly. The newest release, 1.13.0, is from 19 February 2025 — twenty months ago — with eleven changes sitting unreleased since, while the code itself was last pushed on 6 January 2026, nine and a half months ago. So it is slow, not dead, and a packaged copy is behind the code. The licence is plain MIT. If the missing operations matter, gokcehan/lf is the closest fuller relative and also written in Go, and sxyazi/yazi from Edition 28 is the much larger modern option.
- One small binary, in most package lists, with nothing to configure.
- File preview including images works immediately, with nothing extra installed.
- Delete has an undo, and the delete command itself can be swapped for one that uses a wastebasket.
- Does nothing useful until a shell function is added by hand, and the function has a different name from the program.
- No copying, moving, renaming or multiple selection, and no configuration file at all.
- The newest release is twenty months old with eleven unreleased changes behind it.
- gokcehan/lf
MIT, 9.5k stars; the same terminal browsing job, also in Go, also shipping a shell wrapper, with a configuration file, custom commands and multiple panes.
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sxyazi/yaziMIT, 42.3k stars, covered in Edition 28; a much larger file manager in Rust with full file operations, plugins and configuration, which is more to learn and far more capable.
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BSD-2-Clause, 21.9k stars; the same navigation job in C, with a plugin system and extras such as disk-usage analysis and batch renaming.
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brew install walk
