UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

No, only to where the cursor is as I indicated in my earlier post. If you want the selection to be written to another file then you need to do something like this:

:%w newfile.txt

This will overwrite the file named 'newfile.txt', if it exists. If you just wanted to append to the file, you would do a %y as stated above to yank (copy) the text you want, and then do a ':e newfile.txt', which would open the file in the same vi session. Then just type 'p' to paste in the text after your cursor.

You could also open a file using vi and import the entire contents of another file using ':r file.txt'

or

:%w >> newfile.txt

to append

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If i type

and if i open a new fine and do:

(not in command mode)

what i get is only 50 lines

and unix says

do u know whats going on here??

Thankyou.

Why are you doing

Code:

:ap

( I'm assuming you meant colon instead of double quote ) ?

I don't think the 'a' is necessary. I don't even use it in the yank.

Code:

%y

is all that I do.

Just type 'p' in command mode to paste in everything that is in the 'yank' buffer.

To paste buffer a you must use "ap while not in command mode. The :ap doesn't equate to anything in vi.