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Originally Posted by midnight-commander.org
GNU Midnight Commander is a visual file manager ...
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.
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In the stable and svn version of the BLFS book are installation instructions for mc-4.6.1.
That version of mc is very much outdated and has quite a few shortcomings,
compared to the current version 4.7.5.3.
F.e.: I like to use mc for finding files more than using find,
as mc gives feedback about what it is doing, while it is running ...
mc-4.6.1 can
not be used to do a case
insensitive search for file names.
The single check box for case sensitivity in the find dialog
seems to only affect the file contents, but not their names.
(I did try to omit patches and find alternative patches,
but didn't find any that would help that problem.
This way I found the new version and the new home of mc.
)
mc-4.7.5.3 has a much more advanced find file dialog
with a case sensitivity check box for file names as well as for file contents.
(Not mentioning the other nice features there)
Current versions of mc can be found here:
http://www.midnight-commander.org/downloads/
I built it this way without problems:
Code:
./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-vfs-undelfs --enable-vfs-smb
make
--enable-vfs-undelfs enables a feature to recover deleted files from ext2 file systems.
--enable-vfs-smb is for browsing samba shares.
make check can be run, but I believe, it does not actually test anything.
As always, I installed it as a root user:
There seems to be no way to set it, so that the search would follow symbolic links to directories,
but I consider that a minor thing.
I like this new version of mc quite a lot.
BLFS Tip: Use current version of Midnight Commander (mc)
