Nano is a popular, user-friendly text editor used for creating and editing files directly within the Linux command line interface (CLI). It is an alternative to editors like Vi and Emacs and is considered more straightforward for beginners due to its simple and intuitive interface.
Nano comes pre-installed with many Linux distributions but if it's not installed, here's how to do it for popular Linux distributions.
# Ubuntu based distributions
sudo apt update
sudo apt install nano
# Arch Linux
sudo pacman -S nano
To use Nano to edit or create files in Linux, the following command can be used:
nano filename
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