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⁠blackvoidclub/midnight-commander

GNU Midnight Commander⁠ is a visual file manager, licensed under GNU General Public License and therefore qualifies as Free Software. It's 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 subshell. Internal viewer and editor are included.

Midnight Commander is based on versatile text interfaces, such as Ncurses or S-Lang, which allows it to work on a regular console, inside an X Window terminal, over SSH connections and all kinds of remote shells.

⁠Change log

20/02/2025 - version 4.8.33 pushed; latest tag is running on 4.8.33 as well

15/09/2024 - version 4.8.32 pushed; latest tag is running on 4.8.32 as well

22/02/2024 - version 4.8.31 pushed; latest tag is running on 4.8.31 as well

⁠Usage

Example of how to get this container up and running:

⁠docker cli

docker run -it --name=mc -v /:/mnt/host blackvoidclub/midnight-commander

⁠Parameters

You can use as many volume bind parameters to get to various locations on your host.

Parameter

Function

\-v /:/mnt/host

Mount root to mnt/host

\-v /yourCustomLocation:/mnt/someLocation

Mount any local folder to a custom location

⁠MC usage

In case you have exit or stoped the MC container you can simply start it again:

docker start mc

and then just attach to the container

docker attach mc

If you want to detach from the container and not stop it, so that you can simply attach to it again at any point or any terminal, use the following combo:

CTRL+p
CTRL+q

This will kick you out of interactive mode and you can attach back easily.

More info on this particular image and deployment here⁠