Editing a file: nano, vim, and methods without an editor

35 min Debian 12

Objective

Modify a configuration file on any server: with nano (simple), with vim (available everywhere), and even without an editor, using shell commands. This last method is the one installation scripts use… and the one our lab uses.

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