Text Editors
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Current revision as of 15:05, 17 October 2008
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Command line/script
These are tools that allow you to create/modify text files via the command line or in scripts.
Touch
Creates empty files ready for writing to
touch myfile.txt
Cat
Reads files and dumps them to the console, you can redirect to a file via >
//read single file cat myfile
//read multiple files (myfiles1, myfiles2, myfiles3//0 cat myfiles*
//read multiple files and dump in a file cat myfiles* > combined.txt
//append one file to another cat file1 >> file2
Grep
Provides serach/filter operations on input (case sensitive) use regular expression. See "man grep" for more details
//read file, search for lines containing the word debug cat mylog | grep debug
//read file, search for "results returned" and output to new file cat mywork.txt | grep results\ returned > myresults.txt
Console Editor
This editors are available when you are via the ssh terminal/putty
VI
This editor is not for the faint hearted
vi cheat sheet http://www.lagmonster.org/docs/vi.html
Nano
Good command line editor (similar to pico)
Pico
Good command line editor (Similar to nano)
GUI
These editors are gui based and will need a remote X session.