Midnight Commander

An old-school dual-pane file manager for the terminal

About

An old-school two-panel commander. Two directories sit side by side, with function-key actions along the bottom. Copying and moving between panes is quick, and a viewer plus an editor come built in.

Install it

pkg install mc

Run this inside Termux. If the package is already present, pkg will say so and do nothing.

Commands worth knowing

6 of the invocations you will actually reach for. Tap the copy button to put one on your clipboard.

mc . Start the dual-pane manager, current folder in the left panel.
mc -b Black-and-white mode, for terminals without colour support.
mc --view notes.txt Open the built-in viewer on the named path, read-only.
mc --edit scripts/deploy.sh Jump straight into the bundled editor on the given path.
mc -x Run inside the current terminal rather than a fresh subshell.
mc -P /tmp/panel-dir On exit, write the last directory you visited to the given location.

Developed by

Miguel de Icaza .