There has been some amount of requests on renaming this project to avoid the conflict with Midnight Commander for Unix distributions. We struggled with this, it is harder to find a name sweeter and shorter than mc for MinIO Client.
Besides mc is a single static binary and can reside inside your application and is fully self contained. Midnight Commander (mc) is a free software clone of Norton Commander (nc). MinIO and Midnight shares no code or ideas. Only their abbreviation matches.
Package managers are free to choose a different name if they like. One such solution pointed out by one of our community members.
mv ./mc ./mcli