OriCmd

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A two-panel file manager for macOS with a familiar look: two panels, function key buttons at the bottom, a command line and full keyboard control — everything in its usual place. The standard macOS shortcuts (⌘C, ⌘V, ⌘Q, ⌘W, …) keep working as always.

Features

• Panels: tabs, history, directory hotlist, tree, filters, quick search, an editable path with Tab completion; full and brief views, thumbnails, optional columns, file colors by mask and ready-made colors for color vision deficiencies.
• Copy and move: queue and background operations, file type filter, name masks, overwrite modes, verification after copying.
• Archives as folders: zip, tar, 7z and more — browse, extract, pack and change files right inside an archive; archives inside archives open too.
• Servers in a panel: SFTP (through the system ssh, with keys and passwords) with the server's terminal under the files, FTP/FTPS, saved and recent connections; smb, afp, NFS and WebDAV as volumes.
• Tools: viewer (F3) for text (UTF-8, UTF-16, Windows-1251, DOS, KOI8-R and other encodings) with syntax highlighting of code in about 190 languages, tables (Excel 2003 XML, HTML exports, CSV), e-books (FB2, EPUB, MOBI/AZW3, DjVu), hex and Quick Look (office documents too), compare files by content, synchronize directories, multi-rename, find files, checksums, attributes, the Finder's Get Info.
• Make it yours: your own keyboard shortcuts (including import from wincmd.ini), a Start menu, programs for Enter/F3/F4 by file mask, a customizable button bar, the right mouse button marking files.
• Light and dark themes, English and Russian interface, automatic updates from GitHub.

Screenshots

Copy (F5): file type filter, name masks, overwrite modes	Settings with a panel preview
Compare files by content	Multi-Rename Tool (Ctrl+M)
Synchronize directories	Dark theme

The screenshots are made by scripts/screenshots.sh on demo folders (English ones in docs/screenshots/en, Russian ones in docs/screenshots/ru).

Installation

With Homebrew:

brew install --cask mmag/tap/oricmd

Or download the disk image from the Releases page. You can also build one yourself (a universal app for Apple Silicon and Intel, macOS 14+):

scripts/make-dmg.sh        # → build/OriCmd-<version>.dmg

Open the image and drag OriCmd to Applications. The app is ad-hoc signed, without an Apple certificate, so macOS won't open it the first time (whether it came from Homebrew or from the image): right-click OriCmd → Open → Open (or System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway). Or remove the quarantine:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/OriCmd.app

After that OriCmd updates itself: once a day (can be turned off in Settings) and with OriCmd → Check for Updates… it looks for the latest release on GitHub, downloads the image, replaces the app and relaunches. Updates are not quarantined, so there is no need to allow the app again.

Building

Requires macOS 14+ and Xcode.

xcodebuild -project OriCmd.xcodeproj -scheme OriCmd -configuration Debug build

The terminal is SwiftTerm (a Swift package; Xcode fetches it on the first build). Syntax highlighting is highlight.js, kept in Highlighter/ (the OriCmdHighlighter XPC service, locked down, built with the app); scripts/update-highlightjs.sh <version> takes another version from npm, checking the package's checksum.

The icon is drawn by swift scripts/make-icon.swift.

Keys

On a Mac the F keys control brightness, sound and so on by default. Press them with fn, or turn on "Use F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys" in System Settings → Keyboard.

Commands have internal names (cm_Copy, cm_RenMov, …) compatible with wincmd.ini; all of them are in the menus. Shortcuts in parentheses are additional Mac-style ones.

Shortcuts are bound to physical keys: with a Russian (or any other) keyboard layout Ctrl+D, Ctrl+B, Ctrl+U etc. work just like with the English one.

Panels and navigation

Key	Action
↑ ↓ PgUp PgDn Home End	Move the cursor
Enter, double-click (⌘↓)	Open a folder / open a file
Backspace, Ctrl+PgUp (⌘↑)	Parent folder
Ctrl+PgDn	Go inside a package (.app etc.); on a file, open it as an archive whatever its name (.docx, .jar, a zip named otherwise); a file that is no archive stays as it is, it is never started
Tab	Switch panels
Alt+← / Alt+→ (⌘[ / ⌘])	Back / forward in the folder history
Alt+↓	Recent folders
Ctrl+Shift+← / Ctrl+Shift+→, Ctrl+← / Ctrl+→ (⌥⌘← / ⌥⌘→)	Show in the left / right panel what is under the cursor: a folder's or an archive's contents, the folder of a file (with the file selected)
Alt+F1 / Alt+F2	Volume list of the left / right panel
Ctrl+\	Root of the volume
Alt+F10	A folder tree in a dialog: typing a folder's first letters finds it, Enter goes there
⌘T / ⌘W	New tab (or a double click on the empty part of the tab bar) / close tab (or a click on it with the mouse wheel)
Dragging a tab	To another place of its bar, or onto the other panel's tabs: it moves there, with its server and terminal (a panel's only tab is copied)
Commands → Lock Tab / Lock Tab, Allow Folder Changes (also in the tab's context menu)	A locked tab (marked *) keeps its folder: going elsewhere opens a new tab beside it; one locked with folder changes allowed comes back to its folder when chosen again. Locks and names given in the tab menu (Rename Tab…) are kept between launches
Commands → Favorite Tabs	The tabs of both panels saved under a name and shown again (locks and names too)
Ctrl+Tab / Ctrl+Shift+Tab (⇧⌘] / ⇧⌘[)	Next / previous tab
Ctrl+↑ (⌥⌘↑)	Open the folder under the cursor in a new tab
Ctrl+D (⌘D)	Directory hotlist: go, add or remove the current folder
Alt+letter, Ctrl+Alt+letter	Quick search by name (↑/↓ — other matches, a leading * searches inside names)
Alt+F7 (⌘F)	Find files by name, text, date, size and attributes, duplicates too (see Find Files); "Feed to Panel" shows the results as a list in the panel, where all commands work on them, [..] returns to the search folder
Ctrl+F1 / Ctrl+F2 (⌘1 / ⌘2)	Brief / Full view
Ctrl+Shift+F1 (⌘4)	Thumbnails (Quick Look previews)
Right-click on the column headers	The columns of the set shown: Ext, Size, Date, Attr and the optional ones — kind, date created, picture dimensions, duration, Finder tags, Finder comment (sortable like the others)
Show → Columns	Column sets: the Default columns or a set of your own for the panel; Column Sets… makes them, and a set can be used by itself in folders matching masks (~/Pictures*;*/Photos)
Ctrl+F8 (⌘3)	Directory tree; the other panel shows the chosen folder
Show → Separate Tree	A folder tree left of both panels: a folder chosen there opens in the active panel, and the tree follows the active panel
Shift+F2	Compare directories: mark unique and newer files in both panels
Commands → Synchronous Directory Changes	Entering a subfolder or going up in one panel is repeated in the other (if it has such a folder)
Commands → Synchronize Directories…	Compare two folders recursively and copy in the chosen directions (double-click or Space changes the direction)
Ctrl+U	Swap panels
Show → Horizontal Panels	The left panel above the right one (and back); kept between launches
Commands → Left = Right / Right = Left	Show the folder of one panel in the other
⌘R (Ctrl+R)	Reread the folder (changes are also picked up automatically)
⇧⌘.	Show / hide hidden files
Show → Ignore List… / Use the Ignore List	Entries the panels leave out — a name, a mask (*.bak) or a full path (~/Library) per line — while the list is used
Ctrl+F3 … Ctrl+F6 (⌃⌥⌘1 … ⌃⌥⌘4)	Sort by name, extension, date, size; again — reverse order. Clicking a column header does the same
Ctrl+F7 (⌃⌥⌘5)	Unsorted: the order the folder (or archive) has its entries in, folders first

Ctrl+F1…Ctrl+F8, Ctrl+↑ and Ctrl+←/→ are taken by macOS by default (focus on the Dock and the menu bar, Mission Control, switching Spaces). Turn them off in System Settings → Keyboard → Keyboard Shortcuts, or use the shortcuts in parentheses.

Selection

Key	Action
Space, Insert	Mark a file and move down; on a folder, also calculate its size
Alt+Shift+Enter	Calculate the size of all folders
Shift+↑/↓, Shift+PgUp/PgDn/Home/End	Mark a range
⌘-click, Shift-click	Mark with the mouse (or the right button, if it marks files: see Mouse)
+ / −	Mark / unmark a group by mask (*.txt;*.md)
*	Invert the marking of files
Num /	Restore the previous selection
Mark → Copy Names with Details / Copy Full Paths with Details	The name (or full path), size, date and permissions, tab-separated, a line per file
Mark → Save Selection to File… / Load Selection from File… / Load Selection from Clipboard	The marked names, one per line (paths of this folder's files are taken too)
⌘A / ⌥⌘A	Mark all / unmark all
⌥+ / ⌥−	Mark / unmark files with the extension of the one under the cursor
Show → Filter…	Show only files matching a mask (the mask is shown in the path bar)
Show → Only Selected Files	Only the marked files stay in the panel ([selected only] after the path) until All Files or another folder
Ctrl+B (⌘B)	Branch view: all files of the folder and its subfolders in one list
Ctrl+S	Quick filter: only names containing the typed text stay; Enter keeps the filter, Esc removes it

File operations

Key	Action
F3	View (Lister): 1 text, 3 hex, 7 Quick Look (images, PDF, media and office documents — Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, OpenDocument — open in it at once) or a table, an e-book, a web page, Markdown or a 3D model (see below), W word wrap; encodings: 8 UTF-8, U UTF-16, A Windows-1251, S DOS (866), K KOI8-R, all of them (and Automatically) in the text's context menu — the one used is in the title, kept for N/P; H syntax highlighting on/off, F formatting of JSON, XML and code (see below); N/P next/previous file, F7/⌘F find, ⇧F7 find with options (case, a regular expression, bytes in hex — found in the hex dump), F3/⇧F3 find next/previous, Esc close
F4	Open in the default text editor (or the program from the associations)
Shift+F4	Create a new file and open it in the editor
F5	Copy (to the other panel by default)
Shift+F5	Copy within the same folder under another name
F6	Move / rename
Shift+F6, F2	Rename in place (the name is selected; F2 again selects the extension, then the whole name)
Ctrl+M	Multi-Rename Tool: masks [N], [N2-5], [E], [C], [P], [YMD], [hms], search and replace (including regular expressions), case, preview and undo; rules saved under a name; the new names given one by one — edited as a list (Edit Names…) or read from a text file, a line per file
F7 (⇧⌘N)	New folder (a/b/c creates nested ones)
F8, Del (⌘⌫)	Move to the Trash
Shift+F8, Shift+Del, Shift+⌫, ⇧⌘⌫, ⌥⌘⌫	Delete permanently, past the Trash (in the context menu, Delete becomes Delete Permanently while Shift is held)
Ctrl+Shift+F5	Create a symbolic link (in the other panel by default)
Files → Create Hard Link…	Another name of the same file, on the same volume (in the other panel by default)
Files → Compare by Content	Two marked files, or the files under the cursors of both panels. The compare window aligns the lines: changed ones are yellow (with the differing part highlighted), removed ones red, added ones green; N/P (⌥↓/⌥↑) — next/previous difference, "Ignore whitespace"; text files can be edited: "Copy to Right →" / "← Copy to Left" puts a difference on the other side, "Edit Line…" (or a double click) changes both lines of a row, ⌘S saves in the file's own encoding and line breaks (closing with changes asks first); binary files are compared byte by byte in hex
Ctrl+Z	Edit the Finder comment of the file under the cursor (kept with the file, found by Spotlight); the Comment column shows it
⌘I	Change attributes: rwx permissions, hidden, locked, modification date (also recursively)
Alt+Enter (⌥↩)	Get Info: the Finder's info windows of the selected files (of the folder shown on [..])
Ctrl+Q	Quick View in the other panel
Esc	Close a dialog or a window in front (Cancel): copying, questions, Find Files, synchronization, settings
⌘C / ⌘X / ⌘V (Ctrl+C / Ctrl+X / Ctrl+V)	Copy / cut / paste files (compatible with Finder); pasting into the same folder creates "name copy". Files copied or dragged from Microsoft Remote Desktop, virtual machines or Mail (promised files) arrive with their real contents
⌥⌘V	Move the files from the clipboard here
⌥⌘C	Copy the full paths of the selected files (Mark → Copy Names — names only)
⌘K	Connect to a server: sftp://, ftp://, ftps://, ftpes:// open right in the panel; smb, afp, nfs and WebDAV are mounted as volumes (with a "Connecting…" window you can cancel; a server that does not answer is reported within seconds). The last ten servers connected to are listed under the address: a click picks one, a double click connects, − removes one; the window can be made taller
Ctrl+F (⇧⌘K)	Saved connections (passwords are kept in the Keychain)
Net → Disconnect	Close the server in the active panel
Net → Servers on the Network…	The file servers this Mac sees through Bonjour (SMB, AFP, SFTP/SSH, FTP, WebDAV, NFS); choosing one puts its address into Connect to Server
Net → Download from URL…	http(s) and ftp addresses, one per line (the one on the clipboard offered), downloaded into the active panel by the system curl
⌘E	Eject the removable or network volume of the active panel
Alt+F5	Pack into an archive (the format follows the extension: .zip, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tar.xz, .7z): the compression (normal, fastest, best, none), move to archive (the files are deleted once the archive reads back whole), one archive per file or folder, a password for zip archives (AES-256, or ZipCrypto for old programs)
Alt+F9	Unpack the selected archives
Alt+Shift+F9	Test the selected archives (or the one shown): they are read through, their checksums checked, and the damaged files named
Files → Create Checksum File…	MD5 / SHA-1 / SHA-256 / SHA-512 for the selection (shasum/md5sum format)
Files → Print File List… / with Subfolders… / Print File…	The entries shown (or marked) with sizes and dates, the files inside the folders too, or the text of the file under the cursor; ⌘P in the Lister prints what it shows
Files → Encode File… / Decode File…	A file as text for mail — MIME (Base64, with headers), UUE or XXE — and such a text back to the file it holds, under its name
Files → Split File… / Combine Files…	A file cut into pieces of a size chosen (name.001, name.002… and name.crc with its name, size and CRC32, as Total Commander makes them); the pieces put together again from name.001 or name.crc, checked against the .crc file
Files → Verify Checksums	Check the .md5/.sha1/.sha256/.sha512 file under the cursor

Long operations (copy, move, archives) show their progress; the "Background" button moves it to a separate window so you can keep working with the panels. "Pause" stops a copy (and a server transfer) until "Resume"; the speed pop-up limits copying (1 to 100 MB/s; a clone on the same APFS disk is instant anyway). When a server transfer meets a smaller file of the same name (a transfer cut off), "File already exists" offers "Resume": the rest is sent or fetched and appended (SFTP reget/reput, FTP REST/APPE).

E-books in the viewer

FB2 (also .fb2.zip), EPUB, MOBI, AZW, AZW3 and PRC books open to read: title and author in the window title, chapters, epigraphs, verses, quotes, notes, lists, emphasis, pictures and the cover, in a serif column in the middle of the window; Contents in the context menu jumps to a chapter, F7/⌘F finds text, 1 shows the file's text. Books protected by DRM are said so. DjVu documents show their pages when DjVuLibre is installed (brew install djvulibre; its ddjvu draws them in a sandbox that can read nothing but that file), and their hidden text layer otherwise and with F7/⌘F (7 shows the pages again). The books are read by the same locked-down helper as syntax highlighting, pictures included, and what it returns is checked.

Tables in the viewer

What Quick Look can't show as a table, the viewer can: Excel 2003 XML files (by their contents, whatever the name: .xlsx, .xls, .xml — many programs export them), HTML pages named .xls/.xlsx (another common export) and CSV/TSV (the delimiter — , ; tab — is found by itself). They open as a grid with column letters and row numbers, the sheets to choose from above it; merged cells show their value in the first one, dates as dates, numbers to the right. ⌘C copies the selected rows (tab-separated, as Excel and Numbers paste them), the encodings work as for text, 1 shows the text and 7 the table again. The files are read by the same locked-down helper as syntax highlighting, and what it returns is checked.

Web pages, Markdown and formatting in the viewer

HTML files open as pages and Markdown files as documents (tables, colored code, task lists, pictures lying next to the file); 1 shows the source, 7 the page again. Pages are shown locked: JavaScript is off, nothing is loaded from the network (not even a picture, so a page can't tell anyone it was opened), only files of the page's folder and its subfolders show in it, and a link opens in the browser only when clicked. Markdown is made into a page by markdown-it in the same locked-down helper as syntax highlighting.

F (or Format in the context menu) lays out JSON, XML, JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS and HTML for reading, and stays on for the next files: JSON and XML by OriCmd itself (comments, the order of keys and broken files kept), JavaScript, CSS and HTML by js-beautify, TypeScript by Prettier, in the locked-down helper too.

3D models in the viewer

STL files (binary or text) open as a model to turn with the mouse: drag to turn it, the wheel or a pinch to come nearer, Option-drag or two fingers to move it, a double click to see it as at first; its size and number of triangles are in the window title. The file is read by the same locked-down helper as syntax highlighting, and what it returns is checked.

Syntax highlighting in the viewer

The viewer colors program code with highlight.js (about 190 languages). The language follows the file's extension or name (Makefile, Dockerfile, .zshrc), or the program on its #! line (assembly by its instructions: x86, ARM, MIPS, AVR); texts up to about 512 thousand characters are highlighted, the context menu and H turn it on and off. highlight.js runs in a separate helper, OriCmdHighlighter, which locks itself down before it reads anything from OriCmd: no files (not even system ones), no network, no pasteboard, no opening of URLs, no starting or signalling other programs, no looking up other services (the preferences daemon it met while starting checks the lockdown too). Only texts in a language highlight.js knows are sent to it, never key, certificate or signature files. A file made to attack the JavaScript engine could at most see the texts shown in the viewer afterwards, see which programs run, post system notifications, take up shared memory until a restart and send back a wrong coloring, which OriCmd checks; nothing can leave the Mac through it. A highlighting that takes more than 5 seconds is stopped (the text stays plain).

Find Files (Alt+F7)

• General: masks (*.txt;*.md) or a regular expression for the name; the folder and how many levels of subfolders; the text — case-sensitive or not, whole words, a regular expression, or files not containing it — in UTF-8, UTF-16, Windows-1251, DOS (866), KOI8-R or all of them, or bytes in hex (50 4B 03 04).
• Inside archives (zip, tar.*, 7z… by name): names, attributes and text of their files; Go to File opens the archive at the file, Feed to Panel shows the archive itself.
• The Spotlight index: files are taken by name from the index instead of going through the folders — faster, but Spotlight leaves out hidden files, packages and excluded folders (the other conditions are checked as usual).
• Advanced: the modification date (between two dates or not older than), the file size (= < >; "= 2 MB" takes 2 to 3 MB), attributes (folder, hidden, locked, symbolic link, executable: has it, does not have it, any); duplicates — files with the same name, size or contents (the beginning is compared first, then the rest; hard links to one file count once, empty files are left out), shown in groups. The tab's title says when a condition is set there.
• Templates: a search saved under a name (all conditions but the folder) and loaded back.

The copy and move dialog (F5 / F6)

• Target with a name mask: folder/*.* keeps the names, folder/*.bak changes the extension, folder/new_*.* adds a prefix; without a mask and for a single file it is the new name. The drop-down list holds the target list and recent paths; F7 (the "+ F7" button) adds the current folder to the target list or removes it, ⌃D picks a folder from the directory hotlist, "Tree" chooses a folder.
• Only files of this type: *.jpg *.png copies only such files (in subfolders too); exclusions come after |: *.* | *.bak .git/ node_modules/; a name ending in / is a folder at any depth (src/ — only the src folders, with everything inside). Folders left empty by the filter are not created. F8 (the "+ F8" button) — saved filters and examples.
• Copy extended attributes and ACLs (tags, Finder comments, access rights); Verify compares every copied file with the original.
• Buttons: OK (Return), F2 Queue — the operation joins the queue and runs one at a time in its own progress window, Tree, Cancel (Esc), Options >>. Right-click OK or F2 Queue to move instead of copying (and the other way round).
• Options >>: overwrite mode (ask, overwrite all, skip all, overwrite older, auto-rename the copied or the existing files — name(2).ext, copy larger or smaller ones), skip unreadable files, overwrite/delete locked files, skip .DS_Store (on by default: Finder's view settings inside the folders are not copied; one chosen itself is), copy to all folders selected in the target panel. The pin keeps the options open, the save button makes them the default.
• A file or folder that cannot be copied or moved is asked about while the operation waits: Skip (Return), Skip All (the next failures of this operation without asking), Retry, Cancel (Esc) the rest. A file server that refuses some names (Samba's "veto files" on a NAS often keep out .DS_Store, Thumbs.db, desktop.ini) is named as the cause ("the server does not accept this name"); such Finder and Explorer files are left out without asking.

Archives

Enter or Ctrl+PgDn on an archive (zip, tar.*, 7z, rar, iso, cab, …) opens it like a folder. Inside it navigation, selection, F3, Enter (the file is extracted to a temporary folder and opened) and F5 (extract the selection to the other panel) work. Zip, tar, tar.gz, tar.bz2, tar.xz and 7z archives can also be written: F5/F6 into a panel showing an archive pack the files into it, and F7, F8 and Shift+F6 work inside (the archive is rebuilt through a temporary folder). rar, iso, cab and others are read-only. An archive inside an archive opens the same way (Enter, Ctrl+PgDn; [..] goes back to the outer one); it is read-only.

Encrypted zip archives (ZipCrypto or AES) ask for the password when something is unpacked or viewed; it is checked before anything is written, asked for again while it is wrong and remembered until OriCmd quits. An encrypted zip is changed with its password and stays encrypted the same way; encrypted 7z and RAR archives cannot be unpacked (the system libarchive cannot decrypt them).

Solid RAR 4 archives (old ones, made with "Create solid archive") cannot be read by the system libarchive either; with The Unarchiver's command line tools installed (brew install unar) OriCmd lists, views and unpacks them through lsar and unar.

Button bar and drive buttons

Under the window title there is a button bar with frequent commands (reread, views, history, hotlist, find, multi-rename, synchronize, archives, Terminal). Right-click it → Customize Toolbar… to change it. Applications can go on it too: drag an .app from Finder or from a panel onto the button bar (or right-click an application → Add to Button Bar). A click on its button starts the application, files dropped on the button open in it; right-click for Show in Finder and Remove from Button Bar. Above each panel there are drive buttons: the startup volume, the home folder and mounted volumes (can be hidden in Settings). Right-click a drive button for the Finder's volume menu: open (also in a new tab or the other panel), eject a disk or a disk image, rename, Get Info. When the buttons do not fit, they scroll (wheel, trackpad, arrows at the ends).

Servers (SFTP, FTP)

SFTP works through the system ssh/sftp: ~/.ssh/config (aliases, ProxyJump), keys and ssh-agent are used; there is one shared connection per server, and a password or passphrase is asked for once. FTP/FTPS goes through the system curl. On a server navigation, F3, Enter, F5/F6 both ways (download/upload), F7, F8, Shift+F6, paste from the clipboard and dropping files onto the server panel work. Transfers go file by file with byte progress (current file and total). SFTP keeps permissions and dates of files and folders, FTP keeps the dates of downloaded files. With a server in both panels, F5/F6 copy or move from one to the other through this Mac (Total Commander's FXP).

Server terminal

An SFTP panel is split in two: the files on top, the server's shell below, opened in the panel's folder over the same connection (nothing is asked again). Drag the line above the terminal to resize it.

Key	Action
⌃`	Go to the terminal (showing it); in the terminal, hide it and go back to the files
⌃⌥`	Go to the panel's folder in the terminal (at the shell's prompt: what is typed there is cleared first)

The keys are tied to the key that types ` on the Latin layout, on any layout; on ISO keyboards the key under Esc (§, ё on Russian – PC) works too. While the terminal has the focus, every key without ⌘ goes to the shell — Tab, Esc, the function keys, ⌃C; ⌘C/⌘V copy and paste. When you go back to the files, the server folder is read again. After exit, Return connects again. OriCmd remembers whether you hid the terminal and opens the next connection the same way.

A server lives in its tab: switching tabs keeps the connection and the shell (a command keeps running). A server tab is not duplicated: a drive button there opens the drive in a new tab, and ⌘T opens the local folder the tab came from. The terminal ends when you leave the server in its tab, disconnect, close the tab or quit; if a program is still running there (OriCmd asks the server), you are asked first. Disconnect keeps the connection while another tab (or the other panel) shows the same server.

Mouse

Right-click (or Ctrl-click) opens the context menu: open, open with, view, show in Finder, clipboard, rename, delete, pack, Get Info (the Finder's window), and the system Services. Files can be dragged between the panels, from Finder and to Finder; copying by default, moving with ⌘, or with ⌥ between the panels (the cursor loses its "+"; from Finder ⌥ copies, as there). Dropping onto a folder row puts the files into it.

The right button can mark files instead (Settings → Panels → Mouse): a click marks or unmarks a file, a drag over files makes them all as the first one became, and holding the button still for half a second opens the context menu. On [..], on empty space and with Ctrl-click the menu opens at once.

A click on the path above a panel makes it editable: type a folder (or a file: it is shown selected; an archive opens), a folder on the server or in the archive shown, or another server's address, and press Enter; Esc cancels. Tab completes names, as in a shell; pressed again it goes through the choices (Shift+Tab back).

Command line

Letters typed in a panel go to the command line while the cursor stays in the panel.

Key	Action
Enter	Run the command in the current folder (login shell, no window)
Shift+Enter	Run in Terminal, the window stays open
cd <path>, a folder path	Change the folder of the active panel
Ctrl+Enter / Ctrl+Shift+Enter	Insert the name / full path of the file under the cursor
Esc	Clear the command line

Colors

Settings → Colors: the theme — as in the system, light or dark (for OriCmd only, switches at once); the color of marked files, the cursor and the cursor text, alternating row backgrounds; the panel preview shows the result right away. File Colors… colors names by mask (archives, pictures, scripts — examples included); in the dark theme these colors are shown lighter, so they stay readable.

Ready-made colors set the marked files' color and the file colors at once: standard, for red–green color blindness (protanopia, deuteranopia; Okabe–Ito colors), for blue–yellow color blindness (tritanopia), and high contrast. "Marked files in bold" makes marking independent of color; the presets other than the standard one turn it on. High contrast also stripes the rows; another preset takes those stripes away again (not ones you turned on yourself).

Your own keys

Settings → Keyboard → Keyboard Shortcuts…: any cm_* command can get its own shortcut (double-click a row and press the keys). The "Import wincmd.ini…" button takes the assignments from the [Shortcuts] section of a wincmd.ini file — they are added to the standard keys — and also the colors ([Colors]: file colors by mask, marked files, the cursor) and the hotlist entries whose folders exist on this Mac ([DirMenu], cd /path or cd ~/path).

Start menu

Your own commands: Start → Change Start Menu…. A command runs in the shell in the folder of the active panel; the parameters %P (folder of the active panel), %N (file under the cursor), %S (selected files), %T / %M (folder and file under the cursor in the other panel) are inserted already quoted. A command can have its own shortcut (CM+E is ⌃⌘E) and run in Terminal; Customize Toolbar… puts commands on the button bar.

Commands with the same group make a submenu of Start; a group named like a menu of the bar (Files, Commands, Net…) puts its commands at the end of that menu instead, so the main menu gets commands of your own. On the button bar a group is one button with its commands in a dropdown.

Internal associations

Files → Internal Associations… (or the button in Settings): for a mask (*.swift;*.json) you choose programs for Enter, F3 and F4. A program is an application (the Application… button) or a shell command: %P is the file's folder, %N its name; without parameters the path is added at the end (code -g, qlmanage -p). The first matching entry with a program for that key wins; otherwise the standard behavior applies. A * mask at the end of the list sets a program for all other files.

Settings

OriCmd → Settings… (⌘,) — a window with panes:

• General — interface language, automatic update checks.
• Panels — panel preview, font, command line, function key and drive buttons, button bar setup, what the right mouse button does.
• Colors — light or dark theme (or as in the system), panel preview, ready-made colors, colors of marked files (and bold) and the cursor, alternating rows, colors by file mask.
• Operations — defaults of the copy dialog (overwrite mode, verification, attributes), confirmation of moving to the Trash, internal associations, Start menu.
• Keyboard — quick search mode, your own shortcuts, a note about the F keys on a Mac.

Interface language

English and Russian. By default the system language is used; Settings → General chooses the language for OriCmd only (the Restart Now button applies it at once).

Development

A Debug build can play key scenarios and save window snapshots — see OriCmd/App/DebugAutomation.swift. The scenarios only work on explicitly given test folders (ORICMD_LEFT, ORICMD_RIGHT); scripts/test/ has the test data, the regression suite and local test servers.

Release: scripts/release.sh 0.2 [notes.md] sets the version, builds the disk image, commits, tags v0.2, pushes to GitHub, publishes the release with the image and updates the Homebrew cask in mmag/homebrew-tap (needs gh auth login).

License

GPL-3.0 — see LICENSE. The terminal uses SwiftTerm (MIT License), syntax highlighting highlight.js (BSD 3-Clause License); DjVu text layers are decompressed as DjVuLibre does (GPL-2.0-or-later, used under version 3); their notices are in About OriCmd.

OriCmd is not affiliated with Ghisler Software GmbH. Total Commander is a trademark of its owner.