Shell Programming and Scripting

Code:

which vi
ls -l /usr/bin/vi
ls -l /bin/vi
find / -name 'vim' 2>/dev/null

or

Code:

grep -n test filename 
+ 
head -n filename | tail -1 > newfile

it is vim not VIM

Code:

vim file

--ahamed

Code:

 
vim <file>
 
vim: not found

Well we've reached post #10 and we know that the file is over 7Gb and you want to edit it. We know nothing about the file itself, but other posters have suggested unix text file editing techniques. Is it a unix text format file with manageable record length?

Have you edited similar (but smaller) files in the same format? If so, what did you do?

Please post what Operating System and version you have.
Please describe the process or program which wrote this file (mentioning programming language or database engine if relevant).