DC - What is Double Commander?

# 1.1. What is Double Commander?

## Content

1. Presentation
2. Apparence

## 1. Presentation

Double Commander is a twin-panel, cross-platform file manager. Inspired by Total Commander and featuring some new ideas in file management. Double Commander is absolutely free, open source software distributed under the (GNU GPL v2) license.

Some features of Double Commander:

- all operations work in the background with threading operations support

- tabbed panels interface

- custom toolbar with buttons to launch external programs or internal commands

- multiple files name rename at once

- customizable columns

- built-in file viewer (`F3`) to view files of ANY SIZE in hexadecimal, binary or text format

- built-in text editor (`F4`) with syntax highlighting

- archives are handled like subdirectories. You can easily copy files to and from an archive. Supports the following types: ZIP, TAR GZ, TGZ, BZ2, RPM, CPIO, DEB, RAR

- extended search function with full text search in any files

- supports WCX, WLX, WDX and WFX plugins from Total Commander (also supports its own DSX plugin format)

- operations log

- and more...

Note: the project is under heavy development now, so information presented in this document may be incomplete or irrelevant.

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## 2. Apparence

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