(on Wikipedia)
Chocolatey: mc
http://midnight-commander.org/

A commandline file manager, with FTP access.

Particularly easy to use and featureful. I consider this an essential tool, but usually forget it exists.

• mc
• aka GNU Midnight Commander

• mcedit is its text editor

• on Windows

  • on Windows 95 and Windows NT

• on Mac OSX

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• 2017-10-25 – 4.8.14 on Windows 10 via Babun
• 2017-10-24 – 4.8.19.204 on Windows 10 via Chocolatey
• ~2016-10-17 – (version not recorded) on Windows 10 via Chocolatey
• 2016-03-28 – 4.8.10 on Slackware 14.1
• 2016-03-26 – 4.8.11 on Lubuntu 14.04.4 LTS
• earlier than 2016-01-30 – (version not recorded)/Windows on Windows 10 via Git on Windows Git-1.9.5-preview20141217
• 2009-02-28 – 4.6.1 on (distribution not recorded)

• 2006-07-01 – 4.6.0 on (distribution not recorded)

2016-03-28 – 4.8.10 ∞

GNU Midnight Commander 4.8.10
Built with GLib 2.36.4
Using the S-Lang library with terminfo database
With builtin Editor
With subshell support as default
With support for background operations
With mouse support on xterm and Linux console
With support for X11 events
With internationalization support
With multiple codepages support
Virtual File Systems: cpiofs, tarfs, sfs, extfs, ftpfs, fish, smbfs
Data types: char: 8; int: 32; long: 32; void *: 32; size_t: 32; off_t: 64;

2016-03-26 – 4.8.11 ∞

GNU Midnight Commander 4.8.11
Built with GLib 2.39.1
Using the S-Lang library with terminfo database
With builtin Editor
With subshell support as default
With support for background operations
With mouse support on xterm and Linux console
With support for X11 events
With internationalization support
With multiple codepages support
Virtual File Systems: cpiofs, tarfs, sfs, extfs, ext2undelfs, ftpfs, sftpfs, fish
Data types: char: 8; int: 32; long: 64; void *: 64; size_t: 64; off_t: 64;

I believe this came with Lubuntu.

earlier than 2016-01-30 – (version not recorded)/Windows ∞

• I had a note that said Midnight Commander is also available on Windows via Git on Windows. However, that appears to not be true.

  • I also can’t figure out where I got midnight commander from. I uninstalled it, and now I have no bookmark or file saved. Fuck.
  • It never had mcedit, which sucks.
  • I started using Babun anyway, so I don’t care any more.

2009-02-28 – 4.6.1 ∞

• How do I select all files and directories?

  • 2009-02-28 — I figured it out.

2006-07-01 – 4.6.0 ∞

Very good, and about the only hope for doing certain CLI things with over-full directories.

I see no way to connect to an SFTP site. I need to read various obscure man pages. Maybe it’s this?:

cd /#sftp:user@example.com

Usage ∞

2009-02-28:

• control-o to get back to the shell temporarily.
• control-x,t – Paste the selected names into the commandline

• Having trouble pasting a password into the FTP prompt?

  • Try shift-insert or perhaps control-shift-v

• To select all files and directories:

  • + to select, and use the default of *
  • + to select, and use */

Alternatives ∞

• /tag/linux-software+commandline-software+file-managers
• superfile is fantastic.

• n³