o</code> remember the cursor position when you close a file),
you will rarely need to specify a line number.
</p>
<p>As a special case: when instead of a filename a dash is given, <code>nano</code>
will read data from standard input.  This means you can pipe the output of
a command straight into a buffer, and then edit it.
</p>

<hr>
<span id="Editor-Basics"></span><span id="Editor-Basics-1"></span><h2 class="chapter">3 Editor Basics</h2>

<table class="menu" border="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr><td align="left"