Linux Crash Course - nano (command-line text editor)

When you're working with Linux servers, you may or may not always have access to a GUI, which is why it's important to learn at least one command-line text editor. In this video, we'll explore the core fundamentals of nano. nano is a text editor that's among the easiest to learn.

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#*⏰ TIME CODES*
00:00 - Intro
00:46 - Checking/installing nano
01:46 - Launching nano
02:27 - CTRL commands, and saving/exiting
03:26 - Editing an existing file
04:47 - Searching for text
06:24 - Cutting and pasting text
07:23 - Viewing the help screen
07:43 - Starting nano at a specific line number
08:23 - View-only mode
09:28 - Moving to a specific line number after opening a file
10:37 - Checking spelling*🎓 FULL LINUX COURSES FROM LEARN LINUX TV*

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[AkebonoRadio]

Jay, love your work. Been using Linux for years. However, love learning the fundamentals.

[skysaville]

Editing the nanorc file makes nano so good, it’s my daily driver for most things now.

[AnzanHoshinRoshi]

Thank you, Jay. Nano's limitations are offset by how easy it is for quick work.

[mikehensley]

Ive been using nano since it was pico(in the pine email pkg)! I love it.

[tigerfish]

Love your content, way back in 90's when i started learning Unix as sideline to my job supporting DOS/Windows banks trading floor workstations that my company supplied with our real time market data product, the biggest learning curve i had was learning the locations of various files and the unix commend line editors as they were so different to DOS 'edit', i recall the commend back then was 'ed'....i wish Nano was available back then, thanks for the trip down memory lane.

[aaronperl]

Back in university, the first Computer Science course was taught using Pascal on DOS. The next class was using a language called Modula-3 on UNIX (Solaris), or Linux for those who wanted to try to run it at home, though that's a whole other story about the libc6 disaster). I didn't know how to use any UNIX text editors in those days except for pico, which I believe nano is based on / a clone of. It was pretty terrible for writing code. After the first assignment I was determined to figure out how to use something better. I used Emacs for a while, and then started learning some Vim and never looked back. Unfortunately, the early experience with pico left a bad taste in my mouth and I tend to avoid using nano as a result. I will agree that it's a better first editor when you're only used to DOS/Windows text editing, though...

[tyler]

No wonder Mork from Ork liked Nano so much. Very useful little tool

[meowcula]

Nano has been my CLI text editor of choice for a long time now. Just never bothered nor had need to learn vim. It does all I need it to do.

[faustipez]

Thank you for all your videos, these are really straight to the point and very easy tu understand, I'm learning a lot! ❤️

[brandon_wallace]

Thanks for this video. I use Vim for so long I never learned how to use Nano.

[froid_san]

Thanks for the video, as a new linux user, I learned a few new tricks on using nano.

[thelowerping]

Thanks for the video, Nano is awsome! ops, sudo apt install spell, Ctrl + T, awesome!

[Roachness]

I haven't worried about line numbers since I programmed in basic in 1987. I need to know how to find multiple occurrences of strings, how to undo, how do duplicate text, more on copy/paste. Spell checking is the last thing I need to know if a code editor.

[AndrettiUA]

Esc + Shift + 4 -- to soft wrap text in nano

[olivergarcia]

Thanks bro, your way to explain thinks is inspiring

[YrmiZ]

You done a great work. This was just what I needed <3

[BigBlueMotors]

Thanks for the video. Seems that spell check process with Nano is different in Kali Linux. I guess each distro has a different way to use spell check.

[kim-hendrikmerk]

personally i prefere ed

ED. The standard text editor.

It is the only text editor that isn't bloated. Things like syntax highliting or seeing the document while editing are for noobs and bloat. And this is without even mentioning errors, like who actually needs error messages? A single ? to represent an error is all you need. Ed also does not waste your storage space compared to bolat like vi.

[kodemasterx]

Hey everyone Linux Noob here with quick question... So at 6:00 if I add a . at the end instead of a path, does it copy the file to the root or the current directory?

[robertfschmidt]

How can I change the content of existing nano file that comes with kali linux virtual box? I'm having troubles with the sudo -apt update. This file comes with the operating system. I didn't create it. Is it possible to change content of nano that came with linux?