FileManagerCSharp

A simple console file manager written in C#. I made this as a school project to practice working with the file system and console input parsing.

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What it does

You type commands in the terminal and it does file/folder stuff. Kind of like Windows CMD but i wrote it myself. It has a basic command history, colored error messages and supports quoted paths with spaces.

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Project Structure

FileManagerCSharp/
├── Program.cs          # main loop + command routing
├── FileManager.cs      # all file/folder logic
└── CommandParser.cs    # parses input into command + args

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Commands

Command	Usage	Description
dir	dir	show files and folders in current directory
cd	cd <path>	change directory (cd .. to go back)
mkdir	mkdir <name>	create a new folder
rmdir	rmdir <name>	delete folder with everything inside
create	create <name> <text>	create a text file with content
read	read <name>	read and print a text file
del	del <name>	delete a file
copy	copy <source> <dest>	copy file or folder
move	move <source> <dest>	move file or folder
attr	attr <name>	show file name, size, dates, attributes
search	search <name>	search files/folders by name recursively
history	history	show all commands you typed this session
cls	cls	clear the screen
help	help [command]	show all commands, or details for one
exit	exit	close the program

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How CommandParser works

It splits the input by spaces but handles quoted strings correctly. So something like:

create myfile.txt "hello world this is my file"

...gets parsed as 3 parts, not 8. Without quotes the text would get cut off at the first space.

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How to run

1. Clone the repo
2. Open in Visual Studio or use dotnet CLI
3. Build and run

dotnet run

Requires .NET 6 or higher.

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Example session

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PS C:\Users\me> mkdir testfolder
Directory created --> testfolder

PS C:\Users\me> cd testfolder
PS C:\Users\me\testfolder> create notes.txt "this is my note"
File created --> notes.txt

PS C:\Users\me\testfolder> read notes.txt
this is my note

PS C:\Users\me\testfolder> attr notes.txt
Name       --> notes.txt
Size       --> 18 bytes
Created    --> 26.03.2026 14:32:01
Modified   --> 26.03.2026 14:32:01
Attributes --> Archive

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Notes

• Errors are shown in red so they are easy to spot
• rmdir deletes everything inside the folder too, be careful
• search goes through all subfolders recursively
• UTF-8 encoding is set on startup so special characters work fine
• Command history only lasts for the current session, it resets on exit

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Made by a student learning C#