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I use ranger as my file-manager and was looking for an option that i can pass to ranger, that let‘s me open ranger in a given directory, something like ranger —specfic-directory=„/home/tim/literature/„ or something alike. Neither ranger —help, nor the manpage offered an answer, at least none that i understood. I can‘t imagine that such an option doesn‘t exist!
Tim Hilt
Posted 2018-09-25T20:53:32.233
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You can just ranger /home/Louis/whatever
This works just fine without any arguments
neelabalan
Posted 2018-09-25T20:53:32.233
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You can execute ranger --cmd='cd ~/Desktop'
J.Adler
Posted 2018-09-25T20:53:32.233
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I didn't look at this post for a while and later figured out myself that you are right! It's even written in the man-page! Thanks for your answer! – Tim Hilt – 2019-01-05T08:12:49.067
Oh that's actually a nice and easy option! I previously went with what @J.Adler suggested, but will use your answer from now on! Thank you! – Tim Hilt – 2019-01-05T08:11:46.993
Thank you. But what @J.Adler suggested works also in cases where you need to open a separate window of the terminal with the ranger opening in specific directory. For frequent uses calling without arguments would be easy. – neelabalan – 2019-01-05T10:20:55.333