ToolsText Editors to Edit Files in Linux.

Editing text in linux command line. Graphical interface GUI text editors. Vim is an extensively configurable cross-platform and a highly efficient text. Weve already worked with multiple text editors like vim nano emacs etc.

In this tutorial we will show you how to edit files on the command line. Command-line text editors such as Vi nano pico and more. Create a new file by entering the command.

Commandline editors vi nano pico. To open the file run. Log on to the Linux machine as root with a SSH client such as PuTTy.

Lets look at these different tools one by one. If youre on Linux for quite some time you must have heard about Vim. GNU nano is an easy to use command line text editor for Unix and Linux operating systems.

Most configuration of Linux systems is done by editing text files. GUI text editors such as gedit for Gnome Kwrite and more. It includes all the basic functionality youd expect from a regular text editor like syntax highlighting multiple buffers search and replace with regular expression support spellchecking UTF-8.

Vim text editor comes by default in most Linux distributions. GUI editors gedit for GNOME KWrite for KDE If we want to edit a file called textfiletxt using gedit we would type gedit textfiletxt. You can use one of these two available options should you ever need to write a script edit a configuration file create a virtual host or jot down a quick note for yourself.