The venerable EmelFM (the old original gtk1 version), an earlier OFM, remains my most favorite file manager for working with a lot of files. It is solid as a rock, fast as blazes, efficient as anything once learned, very configurable, and not dependent on peculiarities of the Gnome or other whizbang environment. You have to set it up manually so it opens files with the appropriate application and works how you want but it’s easy to customize and add user-defined functions and scripts to the contextual menu. I can’t recall if it had a compare directories plugin, I think it might have. For an advanced user I think it is far superior to its gtk2 successor EmelFM2 (a re-write not a port) which last time I checked was rather buggy and complicated. In adding eye candy and perhaps in the coding, EmelFM2 lost some of the speed and simplicity of the original.

Unfortunately EmelFM1 development has been abandoned for a long time. Really, I just wish someone would take up development of EmelFM1 again and just port it to gtk2/3 without trying to reinvent what was close to a perfect simple OFM for serious users. GC is the next best thing to EmelFM1.

Krusader can hardly compare with the polish and stability of TC, but it’s the only one with some of TC’s features like directory tree comparisons. All the others are just miserable, including MuCommander which I use occasionally on Macs. Sometimes I start my XP virtual machine, just to be able to use TC instead of Krusader.

I’m a little amazed that almost 20 years later, it’s still popular

I’m now also trying out MuCommander, even though I don’t like Java applications, it looks interesting.

J.

but what about:
grep -v “^\\\\” | awk ‘{print $5}’ | sed s/([^"])/$1/

?