UNIX & Admin Features
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BBEdit’s System Administration and Unix Features
BBEdit offers the System Administrator and UNIX user powerful tools as well:
- Authenticated saves (Note: Not available when purchased from the Mac App Store.)
- Access and manipulate locked and hidden unix files for system administration both locally and on remote volumes, even files that are only readable by administrative users (for example,
/etc/sudoers).
(Note: Not available when purchased from the Mac App Store.)
- Shell Worksheets provide a unique command-line experience, complete with
sudo support. Use BBEdit’s powerful editing to manipulate and execute Unix command lines, and then use the same editing capabilities to manipulate the output
- Transparently search, open, and save gzip (
.gz) and bzip2 (.bz2) compressed text files
bbedit command-line tool: invoke BBEdit from anywhere in the Unix command line to open files or sftp/ftp URLs
- Invoke Find Differences from the command line with
bbdiff
- Use the command line for multi-file searching with
bbfind
- Emacs keybinding support (for basic navigation and commands)
Download the fully featured demo.