How to open a file in ssh

tomboi · January 21, 2019, 5:53pm

I know how to open file using gedit on desktop. How do you open a file in ssh when using Linux?

nixcraft · January 22, 2019, 9:49am

You need to use a text editor such as nano (easy for new users) or vim. The steps are follows to open a file:

Log in using ssh:
ssh user@server-name
To show just file run:
cat /path/to/file
To edit or open a file named demo.py in the current directory, execute:
nano demo.py
vi demo.py
Other options are:
more filename
less filename