gedit Command Examples

Text editor of the GNOME Desktop project. More information: https://help.gnome.org/users/gedit/stable/.

• Open a text file:

gedit {{path/to/file}}

• Open multiple text files:

gedit {{file1 file2 ...}}

• Open a text file with a specific encoding:

gedit --encoding={{UTF-8}} {{path/to/file}}

• Display a list of supported encodings:

gedit --list-encodings