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Copy a line 10 times with vi in HP-UX

Dipu — Thu, 22 May 2003 10:38:52 GMT

Hi,
I tried to yank a line using "yy" and tried to paste the same 10 times by using "10P". But the line got pasted only once.

In a similar way I tried to copy the line using "y$" and tried to paste it 10 times using "10P". This worked fine.

But in the second case, the line copied was pasted in the same line.
But I want this to happen in multiple lines.

Can any one suggest any other method other than using vi for duplicating a file containing one line 10 times.

Re: Copy a line 10 times with vi in HP-UX

Paula J Frazer-Campbell — Thu, 22 May 2003 10:45:05 GMT

Hi

Try

yy
10pp

Paula

Re: Copy a line 10 times with vi in HP-UX

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 22 May 2003 10:45:50 GMT

Hi:

# awk '{for (i=0;i<10;i++) print $0}' infile > outfile

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Copy a line 10 times with vi in HP-UX

Leif Halvarsson_2 — Thu, 22 May 2003 10:45:55 GMT

Hi,
It is very easy if you run CDE.

Open the file with dtpad ,mark the line with left mouse button and copy with middle mouse button.

It is also possible to use this method with vi.

Re: Copy a line 10 times with vi in HP-UX

Vicente Sanchez_3 — Thu, 22 May 2003 10:47:27 GMT

Hello,

Try this:

line=$(cat file_with_line)
for i in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
do
echo $line >>new_file
done
HTH, Vicente.

Re: Copy a line 10 times with vi in HP-UX

Ian Dennison_1 — Thu, 22 May 2003 10:48:35 GMT

Multi ways of doing this,...

[Position on Line]
Y P
2Y P
4Y P
2Y P

Makes 10 lines. I tend to use the simple approach for things like this,..

Y P P P P P P P P P

Share and Enjoy! Ian

Re: Copy a line 10 times with vi in HP-UX

Dipu — Thu, 22 May 2003 10:55:35 GMT

Hi,
Paula, your solution did not work. It just prints the line 2 times as you mentioned pp.

James, Thanks a lot for that alternate suggesion. But can you also suggest me a solution by using vi. As none of the solution I recieved seems to work fine.

Leif, I don't wish to do a manual work for copying.

Regards!
Dipu

Re: Copy a line 10 times with vi in HP-UX

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 22 May 2003 11:21:04 GMT

Hi (again):

Well, you asked for "..any other method other than using vi..." so I offered 'awk'.

In 'vi' do:

yy
p
.

...where the "." is a repetition of the 'p'ut, so you type "." eight times to yield a total of ten identical lines in the file. Simple and fast!

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Copy a line 10 times with vi in HP-UX

Dipu — Thu, 22 May 2003 11:48:32 GMT

Hi James,
Repeating . 10 times will do. But suppose I want to generalize to 1000 times it's difficult. So I want a direct method.

Your awk method really solved my problem. But out of curiosity I would like to know whether this is possible with vi.

Thanks a lot

Regards!!!
Dipu

Re: Copy a line 10 times with vi in HP-UX

Geoff Wild — Thu, 22 May 2003 11:53:32 GMT

Yes - just do:

10yy
p

Rgds...Geoff

Re: Copy a line 10 times with vi in HP-UX

Donny Jekels — Thu, 22 May 2003 12:04:06 GMT

in vi,

10yy

then move where you want to paste the lines.

p

done

Re: Copy a line 10 times with vi in HP-UX

Jean-Louis Phelix — Thu, 22 May 2003 12:16:31 GMT

Hi,

Quite hard ... I can only do it using this command on the line to be duplicated :

!!awk '{while (i < 10) {print ; i++}}'

Only the first ! will be displayed and you will have 10 times the original line in you current file.

It can be put in a map (while Ypppppppppp can't)

:map v !!awk '{while (i < 10) {print ; i++}}'^M

hiting v in vi will duplicate 10 times current line.

Regards.

Re: Copy a line 10 times with vi in HP-UX

Umapathy S — Thu, 22 May 2003 13:30:56 GMT

Dipu,
Paula's suggestion will work with vim.
I do most of the repeating stuff like what JRF has suggested second time.
I prefer to use vim than vi.
If you really want to automate the repetition n no. of times then awk is the best solution.

HTH
Umapathy

Re: Copy a line 10 times with vi in HP-UX

Graham Cameron_1 — Fri, 23 May 2003 07:05:11 GMT

Most commands accept a preceding number as an argument, either to give a size or position (for display or movement commands), or as a repeat count (for commands that change text).

Looks like P and p are not in the list of "most commands". Too bad.

Not only that...

. Repeat the last command that changed the buffer. If a count is specified, the command is repeated the specified number of times.

But the following doesn't do that
Y
P
9.

The "9." just does it once!
Looks like we all learned something today.

-- Graham

Re: Copy a line 10 times with vi in HP-UX

RolandH — Fri, 23 May 2003 09:01:03 GMT

copy the line what you want to have 1000 times with
yy

Got to the line where you want to place it and hit
p

And now (if you need 1000 times this line) 1000.

That's it

Roland

Feel free to assign points

Re: Copy a line 10 times with vi in HP-UX

Basheer_2 — Fri, 23 May 2003 13:48:01 GMT

Go to the starting line.

Shift Double Quote
x
1000 yy

This will put 1000 lines into register x

Now go to where you want to copy

Shift Double Quote xp

For Shift Double
(Hold down the Shift Key, Hit the '" key)