Re: [cobalt-developers] [RaQ3] VI, and telnet commands

["Mark Baker - Cobalt Lists" <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Dave that was great!

Thanks for your help.

Regards,

Mark Baker
Dark Marketing Ltd
http://www.yoursitehere.co.uk

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----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Love <dlove@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 1:46 PM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] [RaQ3] VI, and telnet commands


> Mark,
>
> Here's a quick breakdown on copying and editing a file.
>
> On Saturday, October 7, 2000, at 01:16 PM, Mark Baker - Cobalt Lists
wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Can some nice person give me the commands to backup a file (copy),
replace
> > it in telnet, and the general VI commands to:
>
> To copy a file from shell:
>
> $ cp file newfile
>
> This make a copy of 'file' in 'newfile'.
>
> > edit file
>
> $ vi file
>
> The remainder are for use in VI:
>
> > find part of a file
>
> Type a slash (/) followed by the characters you want to search for and
press enter.  To search a second time, press the 'n' key (you can also press
the slash key followed by the enter key).
>
> To search backwards, use a question mark (?) instead of a slash.
>
> > insert a word/letter
>
> Press the i key.  You're now in insert mode.  Anything you type will be
inserted until you press the escape key.
>
> > remove something
>
> x      delete a character forward
> X     delete a character backard
> dw  delete a word forward
> dd   delete a line
> d$   delete from cursor to end of line
> d^   delete from cursor to beginning of line
>
> > Close and save
> :wq   write file and quit VI
> :wq!  write file (force) and quit VI - may be necessary because of file
perms
> :q!     quit VI but don't save changes
>
>
> You can also use control-Z control-Z (^Z^Z) to write and quit, but I've
found over the years that a lot of people just use that as a quick shortcut
to exit vi and end up saving changes they didn't mean to.   For that reason,
I prefer :q! and :wq! instead.  If you just want to look at a file, use
'view' rather than 'vi'.
>
> >
> > and.. the command to reboot the server (httpd) from telnet!
>
> On the Raq3i, /bin/su  to root and:
>
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart
>
> Hope it helps,
>
>  - Dave
>
> --
>
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