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I want to edit one text file, and it will automatically edited another text files. Is this possible? For example I have three save text files namely fileA.txt, fileB.txt and fileC.txt

I just want to edit fileC.txt and some of the chosen data will also save in the two other files.. I dont know if this is possible. I am just a new linux user. Thank you very much.

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    Are the three files the same to start with?
    – Buge
    Jun 30, 2014 at 4:47
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    Do you have a preferred editor? Vim's 'scrollbind' and 'cursorbind' options might get you part way toward a solution.
    – cristoper
    Jun 30, 2014 at 5:20
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    I don't understand your question. Do you want all of the files to be the same when you are finished? Perhaps ln or ln -s is what you want?
    – BenjiWiebe
    Jun 30, 2014 at 13:52

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I just want to edit fileC.txt and some of the chosen data will also save in the two other files.

I'm not sure if you can do that right away from a/the text editor, but maybe you can set up a script to run after your edit, something like:

grep "value you want to save in the other files" C.txt >> A.txt
grep "value you want to save in the other files" C.txt >> B.txt

If this is not what you meant, please provide a full example (edit your question with it) of what will be your input, and your desired output.

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I wanted to add a comment to Jim's answer but my rep is not high enough, apologize for writing this as a separate answer.

Agreed, this is not something you can do in vi. You would need to script something in place. If you give us a specific example, I'm sure a lot of us here will be able to give you a more meaningful answer.

As it is, you would need to do something like

1) edit file

2) run script that distributes edits to all other files

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