i can't edit a file! pico / edit bad commands?

[virtuoso]

I am trying to edit some files in ssh but if I try "edit" or "pico" I get a bad command. Why?

What other commands can I use to edit a file?

[ilja]

the most common are:
vi
vim
emacs
nano
etc.
Everyone of them has its own command to work with it, so you'll have to search for tutorials on the net.

And if you are root on the machine
just
yum install pico

[Mat]

Originally Posted by virtuoso

Why?

simply because they're not installed.. if you have root-access, try to install them.



Mat

[CrystalCowboy]

Pico comes as part of pine. Pine is not a standard part of the FC2 distribution. I think nano was designed to look a lot like pico, so if you can't install pico that might be a good replacement, and nano is standard under FC2.

[GreyGeek]

Originally Posted by virtuoso

I am trying to edit some files in ssh but if I try "edit" or "pico" I get a bad command. Why?

Either pico and edit are not on your system, or they are not in your path.
You can issue "whereis pico" and it it is on you system that command will tell you where it is.
Ditto for 'edit'.
If whereis shows you their location then you can evoke them by includeing their path in your command sequence: /<pathshownbywhereis>/pico /pathtofiletoedit/filename.

Another way to locate a file, especially if you don't know its exact spelling, is to use "locate"
locate pico
You will get a list showing every file with 'pico' as part of its name.
If your system complains that the locate database doesn't exist then open a root term and issue 'updatedb'.

[spark1]

looks like ¨nano¨ is equal to ¨pico¨.. or is it just me.. ?

[kosmosik]

can somebody give some explanation why vi is defaultu $EDITOR in Fedora? like come on... I like VIM, I use it everyday but for newbie vi is like something from other space (how do I close this thing?). I know vi is de facto standard on *NIX (AFAIR ed is part of POSIX standard) and I am not saying to remove it but to not to use it as default. mcedit or nano is quite enough for newbies and at least they know how to use it...

for topic - issue something (as root) like "yum install mc" and you will get nice editor launched via mcedit...

[Ensnared]

I've been using Linux for 7 years and I still think vi seems like something from outer space (no, I don't like emacs either )

I love pico. Always have, always will. Since it's part of pine (as already mentioned above) it's not part of the Fedora distro (I think the reason it's no longer available - as it was in RedHat - is that it isn't licensed under the GPL). Nano was, as also mentioned, created as a GPL version of pico (it was targeted for Debian to begin with), and works exactly like pico does.

So - your solution is to do the following:

alias pico='nano'

Put that into your /etc/bashrc or something and you'll be able to continue using pico even if it's not actually installed

[Mat]

Originally Posted by spark1

looks like ¨nano¨ is equal to ¨pico¨.. or is it just me.. ?

that's cause it's a pico clone


Mat