Re: All Hail Midnight Commander!

Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote at 11:51 this Wednesday (GMT):

Farley Flud wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
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Midnight Commander is, hands down, the absolute best file manager+
for GNU/Linux:
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https://midnight-commander.org/
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_I_ use it exclusively and therefore it MUST be damned good.
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MC is fast and versatile and beats ALL that GUI shit that the
crippled distros offer.
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But MC was once, not too long ago, on the verge of extinction.
However, concerned people got together to bring it back and
are continuing to maintain it.
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Lets give a hearty hail to these MC developers.  They, as well
as countless and nameless others, make GNU/Linux truly the greatest
OS in the history of technical man.
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If I'm going to use an ncurses file manager, I'll use vifm. Like mc, it
can inspect zip files.
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However, mostly I get by quite well with cdargs, find, grep, bash completion,
and common unix commands like cp, rm, rmdir, and mv.
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All you mc lackeys better shut the fsck up!  :-D

I mostly use mc when I need to move a lot of files into one folder or
vice versa. It's a nice tool but a bit unwieldy for single files.

Also pushd/popd are pretty nice sometimes.
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