Taking Command of Your Raspberry Pi - Adventures in Raspberry Pi - page 32

1. Create a text ile on the desktop. To do this, irst use the cd command to navi-
gate to the Desktop directory, and then use the nano command, like this:
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ cd Desktop
pi@raspberrypi ~/Desktop $ nano hello
2. he nano program will open a text ile called hello . You can type anything you
like into this text ile—as you can see in Figure 2-10, I typed in “Hello Raspberry
Pi Adventurers!” Try typing your favourite quote from a ilm or the lyrics of a
song.
3. To exit the text editor, press CTRL+X. he following message appears:
Save modified buffer (ANSWERING “No” WILL DESTROY CHANGES) ?
If you want to save the changes you have made to the ile, press Y for yes. If you
do not want to make any changes, press N for no.
FIGURE 2-10 Using nano to edit a text ile
To learn more about using nano to edit iles, run the man nano command and read
the manual.