Copy folder contents to another location on VPS

[nixnerd]

Gotcha. Now… SSH in and type ‘nano’.

[chrisburton]

command not found

[Alen]

Chris, you’re not going to have Nano installed, unless you specifically installed it.

I prefer to use Vim. And I always follow steps:

• Back up the file about to be edited. cp file.md file.md.bak
• Boot up Vim vim file.md
• Using Vim:
  • To start typing, press a (insert-mode)
  • To quit insert-mode, press Esc
  • To quit Vim and save settings, press : and type wq for Write/Quit
  • To quit without saving changes, press : and type q! for Quit/Forced

That’s pretty much it. If I have major edits to do, I just pull the file locally then edit it. Usually when a lot of copy/paste ‘ing.

[chrisburton]

I reinstalled Centos so I’m going to give it another try. If all else fails, I’m just going to start using git. By the way, sorry for the delayed replies. Not sure if I mentioned my family is in town.

And @Joe_Temp, I can see this being you after reading the above:

[nixnerd]

Chris, you’re not going to have Nano installed, unless you specifically installed it.

That’s cray cray. Even Arch comes with Nano.

I prefer to use Vim.

Chris… if you can handle Vim… you can handle almost anything in Linux. This is your trial by fire my son. Alen is not ****ing around.

I can see this being you after reading the above:

All my dreams are coming true.

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