Techie Thoughts » Shell Script http://blog.techieant.com Open Source, software, hardware, mobile tips and reviews. Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:12:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 How to: Copy contents from file to file in VI editor http://blog.techieant.com/2008/04/10/how-to-copy-contents-from-file-to-file-in-vi-editor/ http://blog.techieant.com/2008/04/10/how-to-copy-contents-from-file-to-file-in-vi-editor/#comments Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:11:13 +0000 Venkat http://blog.techieant.com/2008/04/10/how-to-copy-contents-from-file-to-file-in-vi-editor/ Here is the tip to copy contents from one file to another.

1. Press ‘ESC’.
2. Press Shift+” (double quote).
3. Press ‘a’.
4. Press number of lines you want to copy.
5. Press y followed by another y (yy).
6. Now press : (COLON) to get the vi prompt.
7. Hit e “destination file name’
8. Once you enter the destination file, go to the line where you want the copied lines to be inserted.
9. Press ‘ESC’.
10. Press Shift+”(double quote).
11. Press ‘a’.
12  Press ‘p’.

Happy editing :-)

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