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If you want to survive in a Linux or Solaris environment, you have to be adept with at least one command-line text editor. DBAs use text editors on a daily basis to manipulate database initialization files, create scripts to automate tasks, modify OS scheduler jobs, and so on. In these environments, you won’t be an efficient database administrator unless you’re proficient with a text editor.

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© 2015 Darl Kuhn, Charles Kim, and Bernard Lopuz

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Kuhn, D., Kim, C., Lopuz, B. (2015). Chapter 4: Creating and Editing Files. In: Linux and Solaris Recipes for Oracle DBAs. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-1254-7_4

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