muCommander is a lightweight, cross-platform file manager with a dual-pane interface. It runs on any operating system with Java support (Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, *BSD, Solaris…).
It features a Norton Commander style, dual-pane interface to allow easy manipulation of files with many keyboard shortcuts.
muCommander is written in Java.
Key Features
- Quickly copy, move, rename files, create directories, email files.
- Browse, create and uncompress ZIP, RAR, 7z, TAR, GZip, BZip2, ISO/NRG, AR/Deb and LST archives.
- ZIP files can be modified on-the-fly, without having to recompress the whole archive.
- Universal bookmarks and credentials manager.
- Multiple windows support.
- Full keyboard access.
- Highly configurable.
- Keyboard shortcuts editor.
- Command bar editor.
- Virtual filesystem with support for local volumes, FTP, SFTP, SMB, NFS, HTTP, Amazon S3, Hadoop HDFS and Bonjour.
- Batch renamer.
- Mark files using a regular expression.
- Support for the GNOME trash.
- Theme editor.
- System notifications are sent when transfers are complete or an error has occurred.
- Available in 22 languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Czech, Simplified & Traditional Chinese, Polish, Hungarian, Russian, Slovenian, Romanian, Italian, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, Slovak, Japanese, Swedish, Danish, Ukrainian and Arabic.
Website: www.mucommander.com
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Developer: Maxence Bernard
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
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