Midnight Commander
Midnight Commander is a user-friendly yet powerful text-mode
file
manager and visual shell, useful to novice and advanced users alike. It
can be run on the OS console, or in xterm and other terminal emulators.
It provides a clear, user-friendly, and somewhat protected
interface to a Unix system while making many frequent file operations
more efficient and preserving the full power of the command prompt.
Midnight Commander allows users to manage files while making
most of the screen and providing a clear representation of the
filesystem, yet
it's simple enough to be run over a telnet or ssh session.
The screen of the Midnight Commander is divided into four
parts. Almost all of the screen space is taken up by two directory
panels. By default, the second bottommost line of the screen is the
shell command line, and the bottom line shows the function key labels.
The topmost line is the menu bar line.
The Midnight Commander provides a view of two directories at
the same time. One of the panels is the current panel (a selection bar
is in the current panel). Almost all operations take place on the
current panel.
This package includes an editor called mcedit. mcedit's
features include syntax highlighting for certain languages, and works
in both ASCII and hex modes.
MC 4.8.1.7
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Price
Free to download
Size
1.9MB
License
GNU GPL v3
Developer
Andrej Borsenkow, Andrew V. Samoilov, Ching Hui,
Dugan Porter, Fred Leeflang, Jakub Jelinek, Janne Kukonlehto, Mauricio
Plaza, Miguel de Icaza, Norbert Warmuth, Paul Sheer, Pavel Machek,
Pavel Roskin, Radek Doulik, Roland Illig, and contributors
Website
www.midnight-commander.org
System Requirements
S-Lang or ncurses
gpm (optional) - to use mouse
Support
Sites:
FAQ,
Introduction,
Mailing
List
Selected
Reviews:
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Features include:
- Built in Virtual File System: manipulate remote file
systems through the FTP and SMB 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 users 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: 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 (hex editor is a part of the viewer)
- 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
- Built-in editor supports syntax highlighting and external
actions, such as spell checking and formatting
- Hotlist allows users 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, Midnight Commander will
complete the name. Pressing the Alt-Tab for a second time,
will get a list box with all possible completions
- Subshell support: Run commands by a real
shell interpreter. It interacts with bash, tcsh and zsh to provide you
with all of the facilities
available in the preferred shell
- Find file command can search for the file contents
- Background operations allow users to copy or move files
from any virtual file system while they do other tasks (i.e.,
you can do background FTP copies)
- Support for FTP proxy
- 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: Run any arbitrary external command
and 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
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