Midnight Commander is a file manager running under Linux Ubuntu. It is a clone of the Norton Commander from the early MS-DOS years that helps in navigating through the file system and supports several file management activities.
Midnight Commander, abbreviated MC, is a comfortable file manager for the command line and therefore it is a valuable tool for the system administrator. It helps with navigating through the file system and several file management activities.
Midnight Commander is part of the Ubuntu distribution and you can install it directly from the Ubuntu command line:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install mc
To start Midnight Commander from the command line, just use mc or to start it with root authorization use sudo mc
