The mc command name is inherited from the upstream MinIO Client and conflicts
with GNU Midnight Commander on many Unix distributions. The upstream project
declined to rename
its binary, and this fork keeps the upstream command name for script
compatibility. The two programs share no code or ideas — only the abbreviation
matches. Midnight Commander (mc) is a free software clone of Norton
Commander (nc), while this client is a single, fully self-contained static
binary for object storage.
To avoid the conflict, the standalone archives and Linux packages of this fork
install the binary as mcli — the approach
suggested in
the upstream issue tracker. The configuration directory follows the invoked
name: mc uses ~/.mc, mcli uses ~/.mcli. Package managers remain free to
choose a different name:
mv ./mc ./mcli