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Midnight Commander Cheat Sheet / Shortcuts
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| Note for newcomers: | |
| In the shortcuts below, "C" stands for CTRL and "A" stands for "ALT". This is a convention | |
| used in the Midnight Commander documentation and was kept here. | |
| You can also use "ESC" instead of "ALT", which is useful on Macbooks. | |
| Main View | |
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| - File/directory operations | |
| F3 View file | |
| Shift + F3 View raw file (disregard extension) | |
| F5 Copy selected files | |
| F6 Move selected files | |
| Shift + F6 Rename file under cursor | |
| Shift-F4 Create a new file | |
| C-x d Compare directories | |
| C-x c Chmod dialog | |
| C-x o Chown dialog | |
| C-x C-s Edit symlink | |
| C-x s Create symlink dialog | |
| C-x l Create hard link dialog | |
| C-x v Run relative symbolic link tool on selected or tagged items | |
| C-x a List active VFS directories | |
| - Selection | |
| Insert / C-t Select/deselect file | |
| * Invert selection on files | |
| + Specify file selection options (including custom pattern) | |
| - Same as above, but for deselecting | |
| - Navigation | |
| TAB / / C-i Jump from one panel to the other | |
| F9 Select the top menu bar | |
| Esc Esc Quickly dismiss menus/pop-ups (skip the timeout for "Single press" from the configuration) | |
| A-c Quick cd dialog | |
| A-? Search dialog | |
| C-s Search for item | |
| A-s Incremental search (A-s again to jump to next occurence) | |
| A-y Move to the previous directory in the directory history | |
| A-u Move to the next directory in the directory history | |
| A-Shift-h Show path history | |
| C-\ Directory Hotlist | |
| C-p / Up arrow Move selection bar to the previous entry in the panel | |
| C-n / Down arrow Move selection bar to the next entry in the panel | |
| A-g Move selection bar to the first visible item in the panel | |
| A-r Move selection bar to the middle item in the panel | |
| A-j Move selection bar to the last visible item in the panel | |
| A-v / Page up Move selection bar one page up | |
| A-p / Page down Move selection bar one page down | |
| A-< / Home Move selection bar to the top (first entry) | |
| A-> / End Move selection bar to the bottom (last entry) | |
| - Display | |
| C-r Refresh current panel | |
| C-u Swap panels | |
| A-, Toggle panel layout (horizontal/vertical) | |
| C-x i Toggle other panel to information mode | |
| C-x q Toggle other panel to quick view mode | |
| A-i Make the other panel show the same directory as the current | |
| A-o Display the contents of the highlighted dir in the other panel | |
| A-t Change panel view (full, brief, long) | |
| A-. Toggle "Show Hidden Files" feature | |
| - Command prompt | |
| C-o Drop to the console | |
| A-Enter Put the name of the highlighted file on command line | |
| C-x t Put the name of the selected items on command line | |
| C-Shift-Enter Put the full path of the highlighted file on command line | |
| A-a / C-x p Put the full path of the pane directory on the command line | |
| A-h Show command history | |
| A-n / A-p Navigate up/down through the command history | |
| C-x ! External Panelize (fill current panel with the output of a command) | |
| C-x j Show background jobs | |
| F2-@ Run a command on the currently highlighted item, e.g.: | |
| F2-@ unzip Unzip selected file | |
| F2-@ zip -r foo.zip Zip current directory as foo.zip | |
| F2-@ 7za x Extract selected file with 7zip | |
| F2-@ 7za a foo.7z 7zip current directory as foo.7z | |
| - Others | |
| Shift-F10 Quiet exit, without confirmation | |
| File View | |
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| C-f View the next file | |
| C-b View the previous file |
If anyone is interested I converted this text file to PDF ready to be printed :)
https://github.com/derxe/pdf_mc_cheatsheet/blob/main/mc_cheatsheet.pdf
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I only wish F2 is a template to put file name in the middle of command, but MC always append it to tail of command