How To Install Text-based File Manager

A decade ago, file operations on operating systems has been really quite eeery and so technical. File deletion, management and operation under MS-DOS and IBM-DOS with black text background tends to scare newbies on doing simple file tasks. Until file manager application has been introduced. One of them was Midnight commander.

If you wish not to use X and still do file management and operations with friendly interface from linux command line, read on.

Midnight Commander is a visual shell much like a text-based file manager, only with many more features. Midnight commander not only works in text mode application but also supports mouse movements and commands. Midnight Commander's best features are its ability to FTP, view tar and zip files, and to poke into RPMs for specific files. Another power feature is the ability to switch back and forth between two disk direction locations panned from left and right pane keeping separate operation tagging at the same time.

Midnight Commander (MC) is a fashioned to be very powerful but user-friendly file manager and visual shell designed both for linux novice and guru alike. MC provides a powerful linux operation, yet maintaining its application's function effectively and productively. Midnight Commander supports both local and remote operation under linux CLI or under X Window system which makes it a powerful and flexible tool on linux plafform.

Midnight commander had definitely helped a lot of us crawling over file management and operations under DOS or linux terminal mode.

Midnight Commander Fedora Installation
Fedora makes application installation quite simple by having a centralized and resynced Fedora repo. MC rpm binary is included and can be installed using yum like so

# yum -y install mc

Midnight Commander Binary Launch

# mc

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That is all, enjoy.

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