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Linux & the Command Line / Terminal basics

Lesson 7 of 30

Editing with nano

nano is a simple terminal text editor. The shortcuts are shown at the bottom: ^ means Ctrl.

Key points

  • Ctrl+O saves
  • Ctrl+X exits
  • Ctrl+W searches
nano notes.txt
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Quiz · +10 XP

In nano, what does ^X mean?

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