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Midnight Commander

GNU Midnight Commander is a visual file manager, licensed under GNU General Public License and...

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

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File Management File Sharing OS & Utilities

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console console-based dual-pane file-archiving file-management file-transfer-protocol ftp-client ftp-support lightweight minimalistic mounting-drives sftp ssh two-panel two-panels

Midnight Commander was added by karak in Dec 2009 and the latest update was made in Feb 2019. The list of alternatives was updated Nov 2018 There is a history of all activites on Midnight Commander in our Activity Log. 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 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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Comment by Guest

about Midnight Commander · Oct 2017 · 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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Not running under Windows

Comment by JurgenG

about Midnight Commander · May 2012 · Helpful Not helpful -2 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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