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Opens the config file with the default text editor.

Uses the default editor to open the config file. You can use EDITOR or VISUAL envs to change the default.

atlas config edit [options]
Name
Type
Required
Description
-h, --help
false
help for edit
Name
Type
Required
Description
-P, --profile
string
false
Human-readable label that identifies the profile to use from your configuration file. To learn about profiles for the Atlas CLI, see https://dochub.mongodb.org/core/atlas-cli-save-connection-settings. To learn about profiles for MongoCLI, see https://dochub.mongodb.org/core/atlas-cli-configuration-file.
# To open the config
atlas config edit
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