I've been away from Unix and the vi editor for a while, and now I'm using vi (actually vim) in a Cygwin bash shell. When I copy-and-paste code examples (I'm playing with perl now) any time I paste code with lines beginning with the # character, vi inserts a # character at the beginning of every line after that point. I'm hoping one of you is familiar with this oddity.
Example of code I copied:
Example of what I get from the paste operation:
output of :set in vi:
Thanks,
greenmangroup
(just me and my multiple personalities)
Hi All,
I need to create script which will accept one file as i/p and give me o/p file described as below.
1) i/p log file named abc.log contents several lines but i am interested in lines like below.
#FILE..... /oracle/XYZ/sapdata1/undo_7/undo.data7
#SAVED.... BACKINTID001
2) o/p... (4 Replies)
Hi all,
I'm a unix newb andI'm trying to write a script that can copy some text paste it in a certian place and then add a number. It's not really clear but I'll show an example.
what the file looks like right now:
Linux 2.6.24-24-generic (abc) 07/15/09
23:25:01 CPU ... (6 Replies)
Dear All,
I am working with windoes OS but remote a linux machine. I wonder the way to copy an paste some part of a huge file in linux machine.
the contain of file like as follow:
...
dump annealling all custom 10 anneal_*.dat id type x y z q
timestep 0.02
run 200000
Memory... (2 Replies)
Dear All,
I have a file containing 12 lines.
First 3 lines have 9 values and the remaining 9 lines with no values. I was trying to copy and paste these 9 values of the first 3 lines into last 9 lines simultaneously as A=1.491331, B=1.539000 ..... but I don't know how to cope with this... (9 Replies)
Hello,
at the moment I'm on with programming some kind of version history script for network devices.
The configration files are uploaded in the form:
devicename-confg_date_time.
For keeping the last 10 configurations I want to split the devicename from the rest. This works well with... (5 Replies)
I generally use yy to copy a line and then p to paste the line at end of current line.
But is there a way to paste the copied line in concatenation with the current line with out going to next line. (3 Replies)
Hello Guys,
I know the command echo " " > filenamehere ; would erase everything in the document. Can the same be done, to paste words below certain text?
For example, lets say i want to paste a line below the line Server name: in apache.conf . What should be added in the script? (8 Replies)
hi,
I have Multiple files with the following data :
File1
100414 DR1
END
XXXXX
Test1 Test2 Test3
Test4 Test5 Test6
END
100514 DR2
END
XXXXX
Test7 Test8 Test9
Test10 Test11 Test12
END
100614 DR3 (5 Replies)
Hello guys,
I am trying to copy a line in vi editor and paste it with below commands but paste command is not working and instead of paste action prints the p character!!
I should also mention that the server is Solaris...
1) crontab -e
2) j to move down
3) yy to copy the line
4) o to... (4 Replies)
Shell : Bash shell
I have a text file with entries like below
srv.sr_num sr_number, atvx.ATTRIB_37 Product_Name, ktx.X_ATTRIB_52 Product_Type, mkx.created sr_created_date, nbv.sr_cat_type_cd sr_type, bkrx.sr_area sr_category, ..
frx.order_id, des.stats_name , fpxg.current_id_name, ......
.... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: John K
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LEARN ABOUT FREEBSD
paste
PASTE(1) BSD General Commands Manual PASTE(1)NAME
paste -- merge corresponding or subsequent lines of files
SYNOPSIS
paste [-s] [-d list] file ...
DESCRIPTION
The paste utility concatenates the corresponding lines of the given input files, replacing all but the last file's newline characters with a
single tab character, and writes the resulting lines to standard output. If end-of-file is reached on an input file while other input files
still contain data, the file is treated as if it were an endless source of empty lines.
The options are as follows:
-d list Use one or more of the provided characters to replace the newline characters instead of the default tab. The characters in list
are used circularly, i.e., when list is exhausted the first character from list is reused. This continues until a line from the
last input file (in default operation) or the last line in each file (using the -s option) is displayed, at which time paste
begins selecting characters from the beginning of list again.
The following special characters can also be used in list:
newline character
tab character
\ backslash character
Empty string (not a null character).
Any other character preceded by a backslash is equivalent to the character itself.
-s Concatenate all of the lines of each separate input file in command line order. The newline character of every line except the
last line in each input file is replaced with the tab character, unless otherwise specified by the -d option.
If '-' is specified for one or more of the input files, the standard input is used; standard input is read one line at a time, circularly,
for each instance of '-'.
EXIT STATUS
The paste utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
EXAMPLES
List the files in the current directory in three columns:
ls | paste - - -
Combine pairs of lines from a file into single lines:
paste -s -d '
' myfile
Number the lines in a file, similar to nl(1):
sed = myfile | paste -s -d '
' - -
Create a colon-separated list of directories named bin, suitable for use in the PATH environment variable:
find / -name bin -type d | paste -s -d : -
SEE ALSO cut(1), lam(1)STANDARDS
The paste utility is expected to be IEEE Std 1003.2 (``POSIX.2'') compatible.
HISTORY
A paste command appeared in Version 32V AT&T UNIX.
BSD June 25, 2004 BSD