Midnight Commander
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Text-mode file manager for terminals with dual-pane interface enables copying, moving, deleting, and searching files locally or via remote shells. Includes internal viewer, text editor, subshell integration, broad terminal compatibility, and works over SSH.
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- Free
- Open Source
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- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- Cygwin
- MacPorts
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Midnight Commander or MC for short, is just a classic file manager for Linux and other similar environments. It's stable, well documented and have a well designed TUI (text user interface), also, Midnight Commander has a very good support for network protocols, you can easily access files using SFTP, for example.
Buggy Windows "version" (4.8.24). When moving the opened program, its window's edge never snaps to the sides and corners, unlike every other window panel opened on the desktop. I say version in quotation because it may be inappropriate to call it that, as it is independently available at separate websites unrelated to Midnight Commander official website where the Linux version is. So it seems like the Windows "version" of MC is not so much a version but may be independently ported and maintained at its own pace (the latest windows is several releases behind the latest non Windows versions) by seemingly a separate group.
mcwin32 is a text based application, like its Linux/Unix counter-part, it's screen behavior is similar to all console based applications. As this time the current published version is based on the latest 4.8.27 branch, see github / mcwin32. If there are issues, please raise a suitable ticket. Thanks
Great 'continuation' on Norton Commander.
Has very fast text editor mcedit.
The best curse editor on Linux !
Midnight Commander also functions as a TUI (text user interface - using ncurses) ftp client. However, I've noticed that the ftp connection keepalive seems non-existent so after a few minutes, you will no longer be connected. This keepalive behaviour is in contrast to what WinSCP would do. Also, moving, copying and traversing directories will run into the occasional hiccup.
With Debian testing, I really appreciate the integrated text editor "mcedit". Midnight Commander and MCedit are also useful for administrative tasks (root).