mc

mc (aka Midnight Commander) is a cross-platform terminal file manager with a two-panel interface for navigating filesystems and running common file operations from a TUI.

It is able to manipulate files and directories and can directly copy, move, rename and delete files in the file manager. It also allows you to search through the filesystem and for any of the file's properties and allows running shell commands shown at the bottom of the split panel.

This tool has a lot of customization options including several built-in themes, having multiple ways of viewing files by default either via the built-in hex editor or using the internal diff viewer to diff between two changed files. You can also connect to servers over FTP or SFTP (uses SSH), to manage files remotely and can transfer them and have these operations run as background tasks.

mc (Midnight Commander) is widely used by system administrators, developers and users who frequently access the file system of remote machines or need to transfer files remotely via SFTP. It is one of the essential terminal-based file managers that is packaged in almost all operating systems today.