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How do I open a text file in my terminal?
There is a file named RESULTS.txt and I want to open this file in my terminal. (I mean I want to see the file contents be displayed in the terminal and not in some text editor)
How do I do that ?
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Editing with nano, Alt is caught by the window menus, how can I fix that?
The Alt key is used for many useful commands, but unfortunately it's caught by the terminal window to activate the window menus (File, Edit, ...).
I would like to either force the terminal window to ...
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Is there a text editor for the command line that uses the same keys as Notepad on Windows?
I'm used to work in Windows environment and are used to the commands in Notepad e.g. CtrlS for save, CtrlC for copy and so on.
On Ubuntu it's handy to work directly in the command line, e.g. as with ...
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1answer
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Run external commands from Scribes
Can I run external commands from Scribes?
I'm looking for functionality similar to gedit's External Tools. I would like to be able to run an arbitrary command from Scribes via a chosen key command, ...
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3answers
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How to edit files in a terminal with nano?
Sometimes, a graphical text editor like gedit or kate cannot be used (because you're in a virtual console for example). Luckily, there are text editors for the terminal. An easy one is nano, but I ...
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6answers
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Open application to edit text files from the command line
When installing the TextWrangler in OSX you also get an edit command which allows you to open any text file from the command line.
Is it possible to have a similar functionality in Ubuntu to type ...
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1answer
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Command to append line to a text file without opening an editor
Assuming i have a line that i want to add to a file without opening an editor.
How could i append this line
alias list='ls -cl --group-directories-first'
to this file
config.fish
