Project Summary
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.
In a Nutshell, GNU Midnight Commander...
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has a well established, mature codebase
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took an estimated 57 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in January, 1997
ending with its most recent commit 8 days ago
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GNU General Public License v2.0 or later
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Static Analysis ( Generated by Coverity Scan for MidnightCommander/mc )
Repository URL: https://github.com/MidnightCommander/mc
Version: 4.8.32-258-gdbc92b863
- 2025-01-11
- Last Analyzed
- 127,293
- Lines of Code Analyze
- 0.7
- Defect Density
Defects by status for current build
- 206
- Total defects
- 89
- Outstanding
- 115
- Fixed