Midnight Commander is a text-based file manager, part of the GNU project. It supports file, Samba and FTP remote systems, and is easy to work with various images and archives (use any archiver to decompress). Can work equally efficiently in various system emulators, as well as in the console.
It has a built-in text editor with syntax highlighting, and the ease of use is enhanced with hotkeys that you can customize to your liking.
Features and functions of Midnight Commander
- Ability to move, paste and copy both files and directories in the background.
- Easy and intuitive work with a variety of archive objects and images of different file systems.
- Editing network file systems Samba, FTP and SFTP.
- Built-in convenient text editor with syntax highlighting.
- Text editing mode, based on libraries - analogues of Turbo Pascal, Ncurses and S-Lang libraries (this mode allows the program to work stably in various emulators, in console as well as via SSH).
- Customizable menu (Called by pressing F2, each item performs a set of special shell commands, the commands are written in the file ~/.mc/mc.menu (or ~/.mc/menu)).
- List of working directories for further quick access (Accessed with Ctrl+, set up directly on the quick access panel, or by editing the ~/.mc/hotlist file).
- Unicode support.
