MC is my "shell" of choice [LWN.net]

MC is my "shell" of choice

Posted Jun 25, 2008 8:22 UTC (Wed) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Alternatives by walters
Parent article: Hotwire: a combined terminal/GUI for GNU/Linux (Free Software Magazine)

Midnight Commander is just a file manager, no?

Yes and no. It's true that it's just as file manager with command line access, but you can use it for more then that. Want to convert few files with iconv ? Easy: select files and then
$ for $i in %t; do iconv -f cp1251 -t utf-8 < "$i" > "%D/$i" ; done

Easier then any other solution I've seen. MC allows you to COMBINE point-and-click interface with power of command line. VERY handly. And it can be used over ssh over slow link too!

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