Re: [Nano-devel] Start Nano at the end of a file?

[Benno Schulenberg]

On Fri, Mar 17, 2017, at 17:45, Joel Whitehouse wrote:
> Almost every day I open a file in nano, then issue "ALT+/" to seek to 
> the end of it.  Is there a way I can script this behavior?

Yes, kind of:

  nano +123456789,123456789 yourfile.txt

If you just want to start on the last line (and not fully mimic
the behavior of Alt+\), just the line number is enough.

  nano +123456789 yourfile.txt

If the files you edit are always of human size, you can use
a smaller number.

Benno

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