File modification is an OS routine inevitable to all Linux users. No one can avoid it. Every Linux user (from beginner to pro) has a preferred text editor for file management tasks like their creation, editing, and modification.
This article is here to explore a more efficient approach to directly editing a file on a remote machine over a network while borrowing the implementations of ftp, scp, rcp, and http network protocols.
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