topic Re: vi-editor in Operating System - HP-UX

vi-editor

Veera.Rao — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:25:28 GMT

Hi,

I have 200 lines in a file. Now i need to deleted some lines in between the file.

for example: from 99th line to 150th line

how to delete using vi editor or any other method to do this.....please help me

Regards,
Veera

Re: vi-editor

Steven E. Protter — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:30:09 GMT

Shalom Veera,

99
51dd

http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/Tutor/vi.html

http://www.gnulamp.com/vi.html

SEP

Re: vi-editor

James R. Ferguson — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:35:30 GMT

Hi:

In 'vi' position the cursor on the 99th line (type escape, :99) and enter '51dd' to delete the next 51-lines.

You can use 'sed':

# sed -e '99,150d' file > file.new

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: vi-editor

Veera.Rao — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:01:08 GMT

Hi,

i mentioned date and time for beginning
every of line...can you pls tell me how to sort the line in vi editor with date and time

Re: vi-editor

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:07:30 GMT

Hi Veera:

> i mentioned date and time for beginning
every of line...can you pls tell me how to sort the line in vi editor with date and time

Where in your original post did you mention anything about sorting or anything about timestamps?

What are you really trying to accomplish?

What (*exactly*) does your input file look like (post a snippet) and what (*exactly*) do you want to transform it into?

# man sort

...offers a great deal of information. One doesn't 'sort' in 'vi'.

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: vi-editor

Veera.Rao — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:14:05 GMT

thanks for your support.

Re: vi-editor

Dennis Handly — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:45:56 GMT

>delete ... 99th line to 150th line

If you don't want to do complicated arithmetic in your head, you can just use:
:99,150d

If you want to use the visual editor you can mark the first line "ma", then go to the last line and then "d'a".

>tell me how to sort the line in vi editor with date and time

>JRF: One doesn't sort in vi.

Sure you can but you have to know the sort options.

If you want to sort the whole file, on the first line: !Gsort
You can also sort partial ranges using the mark command: !'asort

Re: vi-editor

Suraj K Sankari — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 04:22:31 GMT

Hi Veera,

If you got your answer then from next time please assign points to those people who give there valuable time to help you out.
To know how to assign points please go through this below link

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/helptips.do?#33

Suraj

Re: vi-editor

melvyn burnard — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:50:48 GMT

Also, please open your thread in a relevant sub-forum, none of the questions you have asked have ANYTHING to do with Serviceguard.