BBEdit's UNIX & Admin Features | Bare Bones Software

BBEdit’s UNIX & Admin Features

BBEdit offers the System Administrator and UNIX user powerful tools as well:

Authenticated saves
Access and manipulate locked and hidden unix files for system administration both locally and on remote volumes, even files that are only writeable by administrative users.
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
Pipe command-line tool diagnostic output into bbresults for a GUI errors/warnings/notes results browser
Emacs keybinding support (for basic navigation and commands)