Piped input to nano Why does `ls | nano -` open the editor in Ubuntu but close the editor and save a file to `-.save` in CentOS? How can I get nano in CentOS to remain open when reading stdin?--prophetes.ai

Piped input to nano Why does `ls | nano -` open the editor in Ubuntu but close the editor and save a file to `-.save` in CentOS? How can I get nano in CentOS to remain open when reading stdin?

The feature wasn't added until version 2.2

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> For version 2.2:
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> * Allow nano to work like a pager (read from stdin) [DONE]
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and CentOS6 uses nano-2.0.9-7 (<

If you decided you want the latest version, you can download from the upstream site (< and then follow the Fedora guide to build your own RPM. (<