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Yank a column in vi
I have a file which has data in columns.
Is there a way to yank columns in vi? I tried searching in this forum. I did not find it. Please help me out. 
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Most versions of vi support the C-x commands.
Try man vi and look for open-rectangle, clear-rectangle, yank-rectangle, delete-rectangle If you have a big file and you want to lose,say all of column #5 in the entire file, try awk, it's a lot easier. Code:
awk ' { print $1, $2, $3 , $5, $6}' oldfile>newfile
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