Midnight Commander

GNU Midnight Commander is a visual file manager, licensed under GNU General Public License and therefore qualifies as Free Software.

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gnu midnight commander is a visual file manager, licensed under gnu general public license and therefore qualifies as free software. its a feature rich fullscreen text mode application that allows you to copy, move and delete files and whole directory trees, search for files and run commands in the subshell. internal viewer and editor are included.

midnight commander is based on versatile text interfaces, such as ncurses or slang, which allows it to work on a regular console, inside an x window terminal, over ssh connections and all kinds of remote shells.

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Minimalistic Lightweight Dual pane support File compression Support for FTP Support for SFTP SSH Console based Mounting drives

The Best 9 Midnight Commander Alternatives

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Dolphin File Manager

Dolphin is a file manager for KDE focusing on usability. Has three view modes: Icon, Detail and it used to have Column View like in Finder (it is not available in current version due to problems with maintaibility).

Free Open Source Linux KDE

Tabbed interface Dual pane support File compression Copy files SSH
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Explorer++

Explorer++ is a free file manager for Windows.

Free Open Source Windows

Portable Tabbed interface
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TotalFinder

TotalFinder brings tabs to your native Finder and more! Other features include dual-panel mode and showing folders before files.

Commercial Mac OS X Finder

Tabbed browsing Tabbed interface
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trolCommander

trolcommander - fork of the free and opensource mucommander filemanager. trolcommander is a lightweight, cross-platform file manager with a dual-pane interface with tabbed navigation and rich functionality.

Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

Built in viewer Tabbed interface Lightweight Dual pane support Support for FTP Syntax Highlighting Support for SFTP Built in Terminal
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My Commander

My Commander (MyCO) is "the small - smarter - fastest file manager in the world", archiver and ISO creator for Windows 7. Small and smart, MyCO uses less of your computer's memory while it's running.

Free Windows

Portable Integrated Search Tabbed interface File compression Destroy files Secure Copy (SCP)
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Just Manager

Just Manager is a feature packed, versatile, multi-tabbed multi-pane file manager for the Windows operating system. It is available in both x86 and x64 versions. Despite its many features it is relatively small and efficient.

Free Windows

Multiple languages Tabbed interface Dual pane support Support for Unicode
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Disk Order

Disk Order is a dual pane file manager for your Mac.

Commercial Mac OS X

Built in viewer Tabbed interface Dual pane support Support for FTP Batch rename files Folder Comparison
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qtFM

qtFM is a small, lightweight file manager for Linux desktops based on pure Qt and works great with minimal desktop environments like Openbox.

Free Open Source Linux

Tabbed interface Lightweight
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EF Commander

EF Commander is a file manager for the Windows 95/98/Me, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Window XP and Windows Vista desktop. If youve ever used and liked Norton...

Freemium Windows

Multiple languages Tabbed interface

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The Best Midnight Commander alternatives for Minimalistic, from Lightweight to a Dual pane support.
Alternatives in Midnight Commander for Linux, KDE, Windows, Mac OS X, Finder. This list contains a total of 9 applications similar to Midnight Commander.

Last updated: 2020-07-03 01:30:33

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Midnight Commander

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