mc.fm
Midnight Commander's file manager mode
TLDR
SYNOPSIS
mc [options] [path1 [path2]]
DESCRIPTION
mc is Midnight Commander's file manager mode. It provides a dual-pane, keyboard-driven text-mode file manager in the style of Norton Commander.Function keys drive the main operations: F3 view, F4 edit, F5 copy, F6 move/rename, F7 make directory, F8 delete, F9 menu, F10 quit. The virtual filesystem (VFS) lets you browse archives (tar, zip, rpm, deb and others) and remote systems over SFTP, FTP and the shell protocol (sh://) as if they were local directories.
PARAMETERS
PATH1 PATH2
Directories (or VFS URLs) for the left and right panels.-v, --view FILE
Launch the internal file viewer on a file.-e, --edit FILE...
Launch the internal editor on files.-b, --nocolor
Run in black and white.-c, --color
Force color mode.-S, --skin NAME
Use the specified skin.-d, --nomouse
Disable mouse support.-a, --stickchars
Use plain ASCII characters to draw lines.-u, --nosubshell
Disable the concurrent subshell.-U, --subshell
Enable the concurrent subshell (default).-P, --printwd FILE
Write the last working directory to FILE on exit (used by the mc-wrapper to cd on exit).-x, --xterm
Force xterm features.-X, --no-x11
Disable X11 support.-K, --keymap FILE
Load key bindings from FILE.-l, --ftplog FILE
Log the FTP dialog to FILE.-F, --datadir-info
Print information about the directories mc uses.-V, --version
Display version information.-h, --help
Display help information.
CAVEATS
Terminal-based; some terminals intercept function keys, in which case Esc followed by a digit works instead. Same program as mc; this page covers its file manager usage. Not to be confused with the MinIO client, which also installs a binary named mc.
HISTORY
Midnight Commander was started in 1994 by Miguel de Icaza as a Norton Commander clone for Unix. It became part of the GNU project and is still actively maintained, with 4.8.x releases.
