

Midnight Commander also includes an builtin editor/viewer, features include syntax highlighting for many languages, macros, code. Features include the ability work with common archive formats as if they were simply another directory, and to function as an FTP client. If your putty doesn’t look like on the picture above and lines are just some ugly characters: click here and learn how to fix Midnight Commander line drawing. Native port of GNU Midnight Commander compiled for Windows. Simply enter mc in terminal and press enter or return button and you should see it running and looking like on the picture below. In case you don’t have a package manager or that this command can’t find MC in it’s repositories you can build it from source: The easiest way is using yum or apt-get package menages: all you need to do is execute one command and it will install Midnight Commander and all it’s dependenciesįor servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS or Fedora Linux use yum: yum install mcįor servers running Ubuntu or Debian Linux use apt-get: apt-get install mc (can be useful when migrating from one server to another) Midnight Commander will help you move more easily trough server files/folders, edit config files, copy/move/delete files/folders/whole directory trees, pack and unpack archives, search for files, run commands in shell… You can also use MC to connect to other server’s FTP and copy files from/to other servers. Midnight Commander is Shell application (visual file manager) for SSH like Norton Commander, that older geeks may remember from the time of DOS, or like Total Commander, the most advanced Shell application today.
