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What is Midnight Commander?

GNU Midnight Commander is a feature rich full-screen text mode application that allows you to copy,
move and delete files and whole directory trees, search for files and run commands in the included
subshell.

Hints
mouse support can be enabled if the gpm package is installed
text blocks are symbolized by the symbol "*" for an entire block and "?" for using character
precision
it can also do case conversion (lowercase to uppercase and the other way around)
it can treat some archive types and remote hosts as if they were local filesystems

Commands
F9 for going to the top menu

Esc+1 for displaying the help menu

Ctrl+x i for displaying detailed information about a file

Ctrl+\ for displaying the file hotlist

Ctrl+x h for adding a file to the hotlist

F3 for viewing a file with the text editor or closing the file opened with the text editor

Ctrl+x q for displaying the contents of the file in the other half of the screen (need to press
Esc or Alt-i when in the editing/viewing tab to exit editing mode)

Insert for tagging/untagging files

+ for using pattern detection with the files

F7 for creating a new directory

Alt+o for listing the selected directory in the other panel

Alt+i for displaying the same content in the other panel as in the selected panel

Alt Shift+h for displaying the list of directories that has already been previosly displayed in
the selected panel

F4 for starting the text editor with the selected file in it

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Ctrl and + or Ctrl and - for waving through the used selection criteria

F5 for copying a file/directory

To copy a file and manipulate the name of that file by using text blocks, we symbolize the text
blocks in the field source mask, as they are symbolized in the origin directory, then we mention
in the "to: " field the new order of the text blocks, or their position

To manipulate the text blocks with character precision, the text blocks are represented with the
"?" symbol

Options for character manipulation during copying operations:

i. \u for uppercase conversion

ii. \U for converting the entire block sequence(a word) to uppercase
iii. \I for lowercase conversion
iv. \L for converting the entire block sequence to lowercase

To create links, we can use the following commands:

i. Ctrl-x l for creating a hard link in the current panel

ii. Ctrl-x s for creating a symbolic link in the current panel
iii. Ctrl-x v for creating a symbolic link for the selected file in the directory viewed in the
other panel

To change file ownership, we can use the shortcut Ctrl-x o , and toggle the options with Space.

To use chmod on a file, we can use Ctrl-x c ( needs to run with sudo in order to change
priviledges )

In order to access an ftp location and treat it as a local file system, the following command must
be used: cd ftp_address ( this will display the remote location in the selected panel as if it were a
local filesystem )-it uses FISH or SFTP

To search for a directory, use the command Alt-?

F2 for displaying the user menu, which is, as the name suggests, a list of commands defined by
the user. In the command tab of the upper menu, there is the option for modifying the file with
commands for the user menu

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