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MC (GNU Midnight Commander) is a free cross-platform orthodox file manager and a clone of Norton Commander. It was started by Miguel de Icaza in 1994.

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There are endless number of helpful articles and answers on how set up ~/.ssh/config (e.g., this one's pretty good), but none of them mentions what to do if the private key is also password protected.
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I am trying the obvious: mc file.tar.gz but the tar.gz is not opened any ideas?
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There is a folder with many files in it: 112.mkv 123.md5 123.mkv 221.mkv 467.mkv aa1.mkv abc.md5 abc.mkv bbc.mkv dde.md5 dde.mkv ggh.mkv .... xxy.md5 xxy.mkv xxz.mkv How can I move .md5 files and the ...
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Normal Ubuntu 22.04 install, bash-completion is installed and works in a normal shell.  For example, if I type "docker " and press TAB, it will show a list of Docker subcommands. If I now ...
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I use mcedit (part of GNU Midnight Commander) to edit text files in Linux. It has a hotkey for "Insert file..." - F15 (the same as F9 -> File -> Enter -> Insert file). But my ...
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Midnight Commander allows showing command prompt along with panels if the respective option is enabled in Options -> Layout -> Command prompt. I find the option pretty useless (for me) because ...
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tar -I pixz -cf foo.tar.xz ./foo compress the Stuff. tar -I pixz -xf foo.tar.xz decompress the Stuff. And with pixz -l foo.tar.xz comes a list the contents. How can i do this with (mc) Midnight ...
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I am trying to use midnight commander (mc) to show disk usage of particular directories. I'm aware that I can use the command menu, but I need see individual directory sizes on the fly. I am using ctl ...
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Midnight Commander (mc) may appear "hanging" too often and for quite a long time when a folder with a lot of files located on a slow device/resource like MTP device or SFTP is shown in one ...
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Is there some thing similar to the shift mouse left click in GUI file explorers? Basically something to mark the start and end of the selection, and selects anything in between? My scenario is, I ...
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Is it possible to sort directories by name, and files by date, at the same time? It is easy to obtain this behavior in Total Commander, which I find very nice. Thanks.
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I am using RHEL 7.9 and installed mc with the following commands: yum update yum install mc Options/Appearance menu item is missing. Doing the same on RHEL 8.1 gives the Options/Appearance, probably ...
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In mc (midnight commander), I can define custom command for viewing files, ie: shell/i/.jpg Open=gpicview %f View=file %f | less The command file %f has to be piped to a pager. I am using ...
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I'm trying to select files that are older than a specific date & time, and found this MC ticket that exactly describes my issue, and this comment on it provides a workaround, but I cannot get it ...
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When I press F5 it has one of the options to dive in to subdir if exists but what does that actually mean? You'd think it means if you copy without that option it would copy just one level, but ...
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