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As the question itself says: I would like to know if there is a way to create a script or direct command line to run midnight commander mc and request the program to open an ftp connection on -let's say- the right panel?

Something like:

mc --open-ftp user@ftp.server.com:password --right-panel

Or something like that.

I have seen this tutorial and it works indeed: Save Connection Settings in Midnight Commander, but this allow me to have a bookmark list of my sites, which I must invoke just after running midnight commander.

Any ideas?

Geppettvs D'Constanzo
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  • When I cd to a server from MC, it opens a ftp connection in the selected panel, for example cd /ftp://ftp.midnight-commander.org. However, I couldn't figure out how to make it start it on launch (adding the command to ~/.local/share/mc/bashrc did not work, it was simply ignored). I think the best you'll be able to do is to make a user menu entry for it and then be 2 key-press from the ftp instead of 0. :( – Quasímodo Mar 20 '20 at 11:20

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You can:

mc leftpanel [ rightpanel ]

left panel:

xfce4-terminal -x mc   ftp://user:password@example.com

right panel:

xfce4-terminal -x mc . ftp://user:password@example.com
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  • Puff.... The real thing. Thank you very much. Tried this on Ubuntu 20.04 and works like a charm. Just need to make sure the username is the right one. Certain shared hosting service providers requires to use the user@domain.ext format for the username. I really appreciate a lot your time. – Geppettvs D'Constanzo Mar 11 '21 at 22:14