/span><span id="Invoking-1"></span><h2 class="chapter">2 Invoking</h2>

<p>The usual way to invoke <code>nano</code> is:
</p>
<div class="example">
<pre class="example"><code>nano [FILE]</code>
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<p>But it is also possible to specify one or more options (see <a href="#Command_002dline-Options">Command-line Options</a>),
and to edit several files in a row.  Additionally, the cursor
can be put on a specific line of a file by adding the line number
with a plus sign before the filename, and even in 