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Recently, I had a friend, a serious Linux aficionado, come over and we had occasion to sit in front of my machine while I was doing some console work. I do a lot of work under OS X using the GUI, and previously that is what had been on-screen when he had visited. This time, however, I had some consoles open to one of my web servers.
I did a few things during which he was uncharacteristically silent. During a pause in my typing, he spoke up with a note of real interest: “That’s unbelievably awesome. What is that?”
“Midnight Commander”, I told him.
Now he uses Midnight commander too. All the time. I thought I’d tell you why.
Midnight Commander is a program that allows you to work at many times the rate you would if you were simply typing console commands. While you are far better informed than you would otherwise be.
It’s a file manager for the console (if you’re familiar with Norton Commander, that’s exactly the type of application this is), but to call it “a file manager” is to understate the case dramatically. You need to understand up front that Midnight Commander is a very mature application. It is simply chock-full of useful capabilities. It doesn’t 100% replace the console, but it comes very close.
You can have multiple panes showing you different directories. You can copy and move between these directories with great ease without ever typing a file name. These directories can be on different machines using either FTP or SSL connections. You can change permissions, run arbitrary console commands at any time, even on files in the various directory panes. You can sort, view, change and otherwise variously mess with things in oodles of useful ways many times faster than you can from the command line. You can directly see and navigate inside .tar archives, zips and more. There’s a built-in screen editor you can enable that is syntax-aware and just generally a pleasure to use, or you can continue to use whatever console-based editor you prefer (but you really should learn to use Midnight Commander’s editor. Trust me.)
There’s still more — a whole lot more — but suffice to say that once you wrap your head around Midnight Commander, you’ll be a convert to it forever.
For Linux, typically you update your distribution and then use apt-get or whatever package manager you prefer to install mc — I did it this way:
For OS X, it’s a little tougher to find an easy installation, particularly for the latest versions of Midnight Commander, but there are .dmg files out there that will do it for you. It is entirely worth the effort; I encourage you to get after it right away.
Installing from source code is tough; Midnight Commander’s compilation process is riddled with dependencies. Under OS X as supplied from Apple, these are quite difficult to resolve without adding a lot of other things as well. Still, it can be done; I’ve done it.
Some of the generalized make-OSX-support-Linux packages such as fink and MacPorts can make this a lot easier, but beware: I’ve tried both of these, and they arbitrarily change some of the system software, such as the installed Python and Perl versions.
If that’s okay with you, then by all means, go that route. If new versions of things like Python and Perl are going to break your code, I’d advise you to go about this very carefully. Perl in particular has a tendency to go from working scripts to non-working scripts when you change installed versions.
Copy, edit, delete, move and manage files and directories on your computer using solely shortcuts via this advanced file management tool
Considering that it comes with just a few settings that you can tweak slightly and you can go through the settings to make it work more efficient, the best way to describe Windows Explorer is simply functional. Simply put, if you need to manage files and directories on your computer frequently, then you can be more efficient if you were to use a dedicated file manager.
Midnight Commander is an advanced, yet easy to use Explorer replacement that enables you to perform both simple and complex file management operations using dedicated hotkeys.
Allows you to customize navigation completely
The application comes with a retro interface and features several themes that you can switch to from the Options menu. Similar to other similar tools, the UI is comprised of two tabs that you can use to navigate through the files and folders on your computer.
The difference, however, stems from the fact that the app relies on keyboard shortcuts for navigation purposes. While most of them are quite intuitive, do not hesitate to check out the full list of hotkeys on the developer's website. Then again in case you want to make modifications, then you can do so by accessing the Settings.
Packs several advanced editing features
As far as the functionality is concerned, this is where the application really shines. In addition to the classic file management operations, you will be happy to learn that you can access advanced functions as well. For instance, when editing a file, you have the option to edit the string with a normal expression, hexadecimal, case sensitive, backward or all charsets.
In addition, copying files from one place to another can be done using your usual shell patterns and with preserving the file attributes. Moreover, if you are working with large directories with dozens of files and subfolders, then you can immediately find a particular piece of data via the search function.
A reliable file manager for advanced users
All in all, Midnight Commander is a handy file management utility that addresses users who want to be efficient when handling and editing files and folders on their computer.
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Midnight Commander was reviewed by Alexandra Sava- Core:
- Replace $MC_HOME with $MC_PROFILE_ROOT (#3684)
- Allow rebind TAB key to change panel (#3672)
- Support for True Color (16 millions colors) (#3145)
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