Thanks for viewing my question seemed silly enough. Since directory is a kind of file, I am wandering whether it can be edit or not.I tried several editor but failed to do it. So is there any ways to make it or it is not possible at all. And if it is impossible, why? Thanks again, and best regards!
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You can do this in vim. e.g.
/tmp/testDirecctoryEdit>ls -l
total 4
-rw-rw-r-- 1 a a 13 Oct 6 09:00 file
-rw-rw-r-- 1 a a 0 Oct 6 09:00 file1
-rw-rw-r-- 1 a a 0 Oct 6 09:00 file2
/tmp/testDirecctoryEdit>vim .or vim /tmp/testDirecctoryEdit
Now it will list the files under the directory and pretty much edit the file in a way what operations are typically done on a directory
if I move my cursor to "file" and press D, the file will be deleted. Same way I can rename the files, list then by time/size using s.
And if you really want more, you can explore some of the plugins in vim, for directory related tasks. One such plugin is Nerd tree
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