Midnight Commander

Two-panel file manager for the terminal, with an editor and remote access.

These buttons open the developer's own site, repository or store listing in a new tab. wares.gg does not host downloads.

1 more ways to get Midnight Commander

Package managers

About Midnight Commander

Midnight Commander presents two directory panels in a text interface with keyboard-driven copying, moving and searching, a built-in editor and viewer, transparent archive browsing and virtual filesystems for FTP, SFTP and more. It has been maintained since 1994 and works over any SSH session.

Strengths

  • Works over any terminal, including a plain SSH session on a server
  • Browses archives and remote filesystems as if they were local folders

Limitations

  • Text interface with function-key bindings takes getting used to
  • Windows needs Cygwin or WSL

Details

Pricing
FreeFree and open source under the GPL.
License
GPL-3.0
Developer
The Midnight Commander project
Platforms
macOS, Linux, Command line
How it runs
Downloadable app
Best suited for
Two-panel file manager for the terminal, with an editor and remote access
Categories
File managers
Last verified
Added
Provenance
Selected from the TechWalrus Resource Hub (CLI & Terminal); facts checked against the developer's own pages, 3 sources on file.

Report a wrong fact or a dead link on this listing