Ubuntu – How to exit nano and save to current file automatically

command linenano

Whenever I close nano after having edited an existing file, it first asks if I'd like to save the file (which is fine), and then asks me to confirm the filename (so I press Enter, since literally 100% of the time I want to keep the same filename).

So I'm wondering, is there any shortcut I can use to avoid having to confirm the filename every time?

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According to Nano manual

You can configure ~/.nanorc to Save automatically on exit, don't prompt

($:~)=> nano -w ~/.nanorc 

# Save automatically on exit, don't prompt 
set tempfile

Note: as @cutrightjm commented - the above setting can cause major problems in configurations if you are not careful and modify files and auto-save on exit.

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Ubuntu – How to pass answers to CLI script via arguments

I understand you do not want to modify myscript.

Regarding the second solution you ask for, you can use printf:

printf '%s\n' text1 text2 text3 text4 | myscript

so that, defining an alias for SOMEPROGRAM as:

alias SOMEPROGRAM="printf '%s\n'"

you could effectively call

SOMEPROGRAM text1 text2 text3 text4 | myscript

The first form is ambiguous (from the point of view of SOMEPROGRAM), because it don't know where myscript options end and text parameters start, unless myscript is effectively invoked without any options. In this case you could use a function:

SOMEPROGRAM() {
  myscript="$1"
  shift
  printf '%s\n' "$@" | "$myscript"
}

so that you could effectively call

SOMEPROGRAM myscript text1 text2 text3 text4

Ubuntu – How to save a file using nano

Ctrl + X will quit the editor and you will be asked if you want to save your changes. If you do, press Y for Yes.

Ctrl + O should also work, since that means to save the file, but you won't be asked "Save modifier buffer ? " because you already told nano to save.

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