Creating and Editing Files
nano
A basic text editor found on most UNIX operating systems.
Gives instructions on how to use it at the bottom of the screen.
^
stands forCtrl
Example output from running nano arrayDat.txt
. Save any changes by exiting with ^X
:
GNU nano 2.3.1 File: arrayDat.txt
ProbeID Sample1 Sample2 Sample3 Sample4
1007_s_at 10.93 11.44 11.19 11.64
1053_at 8.28 7.54 8.06 7.32
117_at 3.31 3.41 3.13 3.13
121_at 4.42 4.32 4.46 4.63
1255_g_at 1.8 1.7 1.75 1.81
^G Get Help ^O WriteOut ^R Read File ^Y Prev Page ^K Cut Text ^C Cur Pos
^X Exit ^J Justify ^W Where Is ^V Next Page ^U UnCut Text ^T To Spell
If you recall, you can mount the storage servers to your local machine using SMB. Since mounting the server makes it look like a local directory on your computer, you can use whatever text editing software that you're comfortable with to edit text files on the computing cluster.
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