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Terminal-based visual file manager

• https://midnight-commander.org

GNU Midnight Commander (also known as mc, the command used to start it, and as mouseless commander in older versions) is a free cross-platform orthodox file manager. It was started by Miguel de Icaza in 1994 as a clone of the then-popular Norton Commander.

GNU Midnight Commander is part of the GNU project and is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

GNU Midnight Commander is a visual file manager, licensed under GNU General Public License and therefore qualifies as Free Software. It's a feature rich full-screen text mode application that allows you to copy, move and delete files and whole directory trees, search for files and run commands in the subshell. Internal viewer and editor are included.

Midnight Commander is based on versatile text interfaces, such as Ncurses or S-Lang, which allows it to work on a regular console, inside an X Window terminal, over SSH connections and all kinds of remote shells.

This site hosts the new home of the Midnight Commander. The main project repository has been moved from Savannah to a new Git repository hosted on GitHub:

Snippet from Wikipedia: Midnight Commander

GNU Midnight Commander (also known as mc, the command used to start it, and as mouseless commander in older versions) is a free cross-platform orthodox file manager. It was started by Miguel de Icaza in 1994 as a clone of the then-popular Norton Commander.

GNU Midnight Commander is part of the GNU project and is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

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• brew install midnight-commander - https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/midnight-commander#default
• sudo apt install mc

brew install mc

GNU Midnight Commander was conceived as a free clone of John Socha's Norton Commander. It also takes the best from more recent software with similar interfaces. GNU Midnight Commander comes with mouse support on xterm and optionally on the Linux console.

Some features are specific to the POSIX environment MC runs on, some are familiar to the users of similar software for other operating systems.

The features include:

• Built in Virtual File System: manipulate remote file systems through the FTP and SFTP protocols or over secure shell, browse contents of tar, ar, rpm, zip, cpio, lha and rar archives just like local files.

• Almost all operations work with the virtual file system, enabling you to do complex tasks, like viewing files in archives on an FTP server.

• Mouse support on most terminal emulators for X Window System as well as on the Linux console.

• Learn Keys: GNU Midnight Commander may be configured at run time to support any kind of input keys for a given terminal, making its operation possible even on most weird terminals.

• Text and hex editors are available for you to use (hex editor is a part of the viewer).

• Hotlist allows you to keep a list of common visited locations, including remote sites and directories inside archives.

• Command completion: By pressing Alt-Tab in any place where a filename or an executable are expected, GNU Midnight Commander will complete the name for you. If you press Alt-Tab for the second time, you get a list box with all possible completions.

• Subshell support: Run your commands by a real shell interpreter. GNU Midnight Commander interacts with bash, tcsh and zsh to provide you with all of the facilities available in your preferred shell.

• Find file command can search for the file contents.

• Background operations allow you to copy or move files from any virtual file system while you do other tasks (i.e., you can do background FTP copies).

• FTP proxy is supported.

• Linux file recovery: If you are using Linux, you can recover deleted files from an ext2 or ext3 partition with the undelete file system. This is a low level file recovery function that can recover files deleted by any program on Linux.

• External panelization: You can run any arbitrary external command and GNU Midnight Commander will display the output generated as a file listing that can be manipulated as a regular directory.

• Emacs-like key bindings are used in all widgets.

• Context dependent actions (open, view, edit) are available.

• The built-in file viewer, together with the context dependent actions is used to format man pages on the fly, coloring mail messages and more.

• The built-in editor supports syntax highlighting and external actions, such as spell checking and formatting.

These are hints for the text mode edition:

• Use the F-Keys for invoking the commands in the function key bar.

   If your terminal doesn't support F-keys, you can use the 
   sequence to invoke the corresponding F-digit key.

• Tab changes the current panel.

• All input lines have emacs-like key-bindings (command history is

   accessed through the M-p and M-n keys).

• The panels accept C-n, C-p for browsing the panel (like in Emacs).

• M-Enter copies the currently selected file name to the input line.

• M-Tab completes the current word (or tries to).

• The Virtual File System is a cute addition to the project, you may

   browse in tar and compressed tar files as well as browsing remote
   machines with the shell file system.

• Please read the manual page.

You can access the whole documentation online with the F1 key, although it's not as nice as the groff printed manual page

There is a webpage for GNU Midnight Commander at

• https://www.midnight-commander.org

This page also has current information about mailing lists and some useful advices how to report bugs.

You can download the latest version of GNU Midnight Commander from

• https://www.midnight-commander.org/downloads/

The Midnight Commander distribution is placed at:

• http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/midnightcommander/
• ftp://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/midnightcommander/

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