UNIX & Admin Features
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BBEdit’s System Administration and Unix Features
BBEdit offers the System Administrator&UNIX user powerful tools as well:
- Authenticated saves
- Access and manipulate locked and hidden unix files for system administration both locally and on remote volumesnow open files for editing that are only readable by root. (For example,
/etc/sudoers)
- Shell Worksheets to store and execute Unix command lines by means of a shell worksheettype, delete, and edit text in a worksheet window just as in an ordinary BBEdit document window
- Transparently search, open, and save gzip (
.gz) and bzip2 (.bz2) compressed text files Improved!
- Shell Worksheets provide a unique command-line experience, complete withsudosupport
- bbedit command-line tool: invoke BBEdit from anywhere in the Unix command line to open files — you can now hand sftp/ftp URLs off to BBEdit through the command line tool
- Invoke Find Differences from the command line with
bbdiff
- Optional Emacs keybinding support
Download the fully featured demo.