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Midnight Commander

Visual, text-mode file manager that works in consoles, over SSH and via remote shells.

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GNU Midnight Commander is a visual file manager, licensed under GNU General Public License and therefore qualifies as Free Software. Its 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. More Info »

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Links to official Midnight Commander sites

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Features

Console-based Dual Pane Support File Compression File management Support for FTP Lightweight Minimalistic Mounting drives Support for SFTP SSH Two panels Add a feature

Categories

File Management File Sharing OS & Utilities

Tags

console file-transfer-protocol ftp-client two-panel

Midnight Commander was added by karak in Dec 2009 and the latest update was made in Apr 2020. The list of alternatives was updated Jun 2020. It's possible to update the information on Midnight Commander or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

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Midnight Commander Comments

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Comment by Guest

about Midnight Commander · Oct 2017 · 1 Helpful Report as spam

Binaries for a 32-bit Windows (built for XP, but will run on newer Windows) are at ?http://sourceforge.net/projects/mcwin32/ This is an unofficial build, not fro the official maintainers. It not as frequently updated, and there are probably better choices, It is not correct to say there are no binaries to download.

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Editors_Review · May 2019

Correct, binaries do not exist for Windows 10.

Suggested Windows Alternative: Double Commander
Double Commander

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Comment by mklhmnn

about Midnight Commander · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful 1 Helpful Report as spam

I can't imagine any more how to manage files on OS X or Linux without the MC.

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Not running under Windows

Comment by JurgenG

about Midnight Commander · May 2012 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

In contrary to what the review says, I don't see a binary for Windows.
I can't comment on the option to completely compile MC from source, but I would think it's tied into the *NIX environment pretty tightly.

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Editors_Review · May 2019

Correct, binaries do not exist for Windows 10.

Suggested Windows Alternative: Double Commander
Double Commander