Quick substitution in vi

When browsing source code, with line numbers sometimes one wants to compile and run it. However, the code would not compile because of the line numbers. Well, here is a quick fix; open the file in vi and enter the following "ed" command:

:1,$ s/...//

What does that mean? Starting from line 1 till the last line in the file, substitute the first three characters of each line with contents of the last two slashes (i.e nothing in our owr example).

posted by Amandeep 7/16/2006 12:46:00 AM | PERMALINK

unix tips and tricks

http://open.itworld.com/5040/featurelink_unix041209/page_1.html

posted by Amandeep 7/12/2006 03:36:00 PM | PERMALINK

Setting backspace Character in Terminal

What if you telnet into a system and backspace key stops working? Try the following:

stty erase ^v<press backspace immediately after control v>

posted by Amandeep 7/03/2006 08:18:00 PM | PERMALINK