Piped input to nano

Question

Why does ls | nano - open the editor in Ubuntu but close the editor and save a file to -.save in CentOS?

How can I get nano in CentOS to remain open when reading stdin?

What are the nano versions in those distributions? Maybe the different behavior comes from an older version..
If your shell is bash try with process substitution: nano <( ls ).

manuel · Answer 1 · 2012-11-12 13:26:01Z

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I think that this is text editor "feature" and nano doesn't have that.

you can use 2 steps:

ls > output.txt
nano output.txt

There are 2 other editors which can use stdin for data input

ls | joe
ls | jed

answered Nov 12 '12 at 13:26

manuel
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