Welcome to 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:
Debian / Ubuntu Fedora / Red Hat FreeBSD macOS # apt-get install mc # dnf install mc # pkg install mc % brew install midnight-commander
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:
mc mcedit mcview mcdiff $ man mc ... or read the latest development version online. $ man mcedit ... or read the latest development version online. $ man mcview ... or read the latest development version online. $ man mcdiff ... or read the latest development version online.
Color schemes
Midnight Commander supports theming! Check out the skins that come with the distribution or develop your own:
Contributing & support