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Changing Configuration in AWS Using Command Line Editors

By: John Paul Mueller and

Updated: 02-01-2017

From The Book: AWS For Admins For Dummies

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When working with Linux as you do in AWS (Amazon Web Services), you sometimes need to modify configuration files at the command line. Trying to perform this task without an editor is nearly impossible. The Editors group package provided with your Linux setup includes a number of editors that you can use to perform configuration file editing tasks.

The following minitable gives an overview of each editor (listed as either a default package or an optional package):

Utility/Package	What It Does
Default Packages
vim	Allows editing of text files using the Vi IMproved (VIM) editor. See http://www.vim.org/ for additional details.
Optional Packages
ctags etags	Creates a tag file containing identifiers based on the content of code files for use with a text editor. The tags help the editor provide amplifying information when displaying the file onscreen. The etags utility is an Emacs-specific version that produces more information for this particular editor. See http://ctags.sourceforge.net/ for additional details.
emacs	Displays an extensible, customizable, real-time text editor generally used to modify code files, hence the original name Editing Macros, or Emacs (but you can use it for any other text-editing purpose as well). See https://emacswiki.org/ for additional details.
emacs-auctex	Provides support for tau-epsilon-chi (TeX) files in the Emacs editor. See https://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/ for additional details.
emacs-gnuplot	Provides gnuplot support for the Emacs editor. See https://mkmcc.github.io/software/gnuplot-mode.html for additional details.

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