Difference between revisions of "Viewing and editing configuration files"
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You can use the command cat to dump the contents of a file to the screen by typing cat <filename>. For example to view the contents of your fstab you could use: | You can use the command cat to dump the contents of a file to the screen by typing cat <filename>. For example to view the contents of your fstab you could use: | ||
cat /etc/fstab | {{UserCmd|command=cat /etc/fstab}} | ||
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For larger files where it would be better to navigate around you can use less. For example, to view the contents of your pacman.conf you could type: | For larger files where it would be better to navigate around you can use less. For example, to view the contents of your pacman.conf you could type: | ||
less /etc/pacman.conf | {{UserCmd|command=less /etc/pacman.conf}} | ||
== Editing files from the terminal == <!--T:7--> | == Editing files from the terminal == <!--T:7--> | ||