How to Cut and Paste in the Nano Editor

Nano is a really straight-forward and easy-to-use text editor. It’s quite commonly used as in the vast majority of distros nowadays it can be found pre-installed by default. This guide will cover how you can cut and paste in the nano editor.

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Cut and Paste in the Nano Editor

To start, move to the text you’d like to cut, then hit the following keys on your keyboard:

CTRL + 6

Then with the help of your keyboard’s arrow keys you’ll have the ability to select the exact word(s) you are looking to cut and paste elsewhere.

Once you are done selecting the desired term to cut and paste hit on your keyboard:

CTRL + K

This will cut the selected text.

Then all that its left to do is to navigate to the line where you’d like to paste the text by hitting:

CTRL + U

and that’s it! You have successfully cut and paste in the nano editor! Here’s a small video to show you how easily it can get done:

Summary

This short guide showed you how you can easily and quickly cut and paste in the nano editor