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Far more comfortable and productive than ls, mv, cp, rm, etc. without being less powerful. Unified interface with FTP, SMB, FISH, etc.
Shell link is FIle transfer over SHell filesystem (AKA FISH). You can use it as a SCP with FTP-like features which are nicely integrated in your file manager.
I mean a full-fledged viewer complete with regex search and external commands which can be used to filter the file based on type (like w3m or elinks to filter HTML).
You can have all these utilities, or a single Swiss Army Knife that works over SSH and is pretty productive.
I recommend you to try Midnight Commander (mc), for your own good, once you're used to it you'll be more productive dealing with files. I use it all the time. It's like two interactive ls where you easily select files (or use a pattern to un/select them), then you can edit, view, rename, delete, etc. them with a single function key, or copy/move them to the other panel. It also supports archives, which are shown as directories. And a good searcher.
On Windows you have FAR Manager, MC's big brother. It's even better, it has a million features, fits in a diskette, can be customized, has a plugin API so you can write your shit on it, and has plugins to walk through and control all sorts of things: processes, print jobs, recycle bin, registry, NT services, etc.
You end up memorizing key patterns to do stuff which you execute like fighting game combos.