Questions tagged [mc]
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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How to connect and browse files of remote server via Midnight Commander's Shell link (copy files over SSH) if the private key requires password?
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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is it possible to invoke mc with a tar.gz path as a parameter to open mc directly inside the tar.gz?
I am trying the obvious:
mc file.tar.gz
but the tar.gz is not opened
any ideas?
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Move/mark files and the associated-part too
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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bash-completion doesn't work in Mignight Commander shell
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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How to press <F15> key in mcedit, if my keyboard only has F1...F12?
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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Show the last commands output panel if file panels are active in Midnight Commander?
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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How to open a .tar.xz indexed archivefile with Midnight Commander?
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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Midnight Commander show disk usage
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: working with slow devices/resources
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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In midnight commander, how to select a large continuous range of files
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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midnight commander: sort directories by name and files by date?
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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Midnight Commander Options/Appearance menu is missing on RHEL 7 latest
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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simplest possible pager
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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How to select files in Midnight Commander using an external command (e.g., `find`)?
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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What is midnight commander option "dive in to subdir if exists" copy option for?
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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