aspell [options] command | f | |||||||||||||||
Interactive spell checker. The most basic usage is to check a file using aspell [--lang=code] [--encoding=enc] -c file or to list misspelled words in a file using cat file | aspell [--lang=code] [ --encoding=enc ] -l where code is a two letter abbreviation (de, en, fr, ...) for the language and enc is an encoding such as iso8859-15, koi8-r, utf-8. If option -a is given aspell behaves roughly as the obsolete ispell | ||||||||||||||||
emacs [-nw] [options] [file[s]] | ||||||||||||||||
The GNU project Emacs editor. The most useful options are:
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hunspell [options] [file[s]] | f | |||||||||||||||
Interactive spelling checking. This is a replacement for aspell on SL6. The most basic usage is to check a file using hunspell [-d code] [-i=enc] -c file where code is a language code such as de_DE and enc is an encoding, e.g. utf-8. | ||||||||||||||||
less [options] [file[s]] | FM | |||||||||||||||
Text browser similar to more. Its functionality can be enhanced by a different lesspipe.sh, which can be selected by ini less (Ztn only). This way the files are preprocessed by lesspipe.sh to allow browsing of compressed files, tar files, man pages and many other formats. That makes it possible to e.g view files in archives using the notation less archive:contained_file. Some useful options are:
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nedit [options] [file[s]] | P | |||||||||||||||
Motif GUI style text editor. Use e.g. nedit -h to get a short usage text. | ||||||||||||||||
pico [options] [file] | P | |||||||||||||||
Simple text editor in the style of the alpine composer. Commands are displayed at the bottom of the screen, and context sensitive help is provided. Option -w disables word wrap and thus allows editing of long lines. | Documentation | |||||||||||||||
vi [options] [file[s]] | ||||||||||||||||
Screen-oriented (visual) display editor. See also the more capable vim below. Depending on the installation vi may or may not be identical to vim. Some useful options are:
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vim [options] [file[s]] | ||||||||||||||||
gvim [options] [file[s]] | ||||||||||||||||
vi improved, a programmers text editor. Lots of enhancements above vi like multi level undo, multi windows and buffers, command line editing, filename completion, on-line help, visual selection, etc. Some useful options are:
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xxd [-br] [-l len] [infile [outfile]] | F | |||||||||||||||
Dump files in hexadecimal or do the reverse. To edit a binary file relatively safely first convert it using xxd, edit in the output and then reverting the dump using option -r. Output may be restricted to len bytes or representation may change from hex to bits (-b). |