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*nix system administration at many companies means that there are 1000s of RHEL or CentOS or older Solaris servers that you may very often need to edit a file i
by indigodaddy 6y ago
*nix system administration at many companies means that there are 1000s of RHEL or CentOS or older Solaris servers that you may very often need to edit a file if there is no config management (which is often the case). What all these servers will have to do that will be vi (or vim if you’re lucky). In most cases you can’t just go install some random other text editor that you happen to like better or be more proficient in. That means you have to be at least somewhat functional in vi to be able to perform basic tasks.
- ilaksh 6y agoIf you literally have to log into an ssh session on 1000s of machines running discontinued operating systems to manually edit files and can never install new tools for editing or anything else in those machines, then you deserve to go out of business.
- indigodaddy 6y agoBut aren’t you talking about sshing into a machine and manually editing with Micro? If we’re going to talk apples, let’s stick with talking apples.