Bob Sneidar wrote:
> On Jun 16, 2017, at 17:23 , Richard Gaskin wrote:
>>
>> In many cases you'll find you don't need to change permissions and
>> then change them back; you can temporarily raise your own permissions
>> with sudo to edit files and leave permissions as originally
>> configured.
>
> True, if using terminal, but I was editing the file with the GUI text
> editor. I suppsoe I could have launched the text editor as sudo...
True. But most servers won't have a GUI installed, so it can be well
worth the time to get to know Nano.
As with a GUI editor, you can launch Nano with sudo:
sudo nano somefile.txt
You probably won't want to use Nano to write a book, but for quick
editing of config files it's pretty good, much easier to learn than vim
or emacs.
If you're on a system that doesn't have Nano installed, on a
Debian-based system like yours you can install it with apt-get:
sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install nano
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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