Midnight Commander

GNU Midnight Commander (or mc) is a visual, dual-pane file manager. It is released under the GNU General Public License and therefore qualifies as Free Software.

Midnight Commander is a feature-rich, full-screen, text-mode application that allows you to copy, move, and delete files and entire directory trees, search for files, and execute commands in the subshell. Internal viewer, editor and diff viewer are included.

mc uses versatile text interface libraries such as ncurses or S-Lang, which allows it to work on a regular console, inside an X Window terminal, over ssh connections, and in all kinds of remote shells.

Installation

The easiest way to install mc is to use your system package manager:

Our source releases are kindly mirrored by OSU OSL. Our canonical repository is hosted on GitHub. See the Source code page for details.

Documentation

The primary way to learn about mc is to use the context-sensitive online help available via F1.

We also have extensive manual pages, which are the primary source of official documentation:

Color schemes

Midnight Commander supports theming! Check out the skins that come with the distribution or develop your own:

Contributing & support

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