Quick tip: change default text editor on Linux shell

by Nish Vamadevan

Doing visudo you get nano instead of your favorite text editor? Mine is vim therefore I issue: DEBIAN/UBUNTU way # update-alternatives –config editor There are 4 alternatives which provide `editor’. Selection Alternative ———————————————– 1 /usr/bin/vim.tiny 2 /bin/ed *+ 3 /bin/nano 4 /usr/bin/vim.basic Press enter to keep the default[*], or type selection number: Selecting 4 I’m [...]

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How to change the file timestamp on Linux

by Nish Vamadevan

This tip might comes handy when you do a system check and you want to make sure you don’t check the same file twice. Let’s pretend that our “file1″ is a conf file that needs review. As you can see the output of the command issued below shows that the file was last edited in [...]

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