Hello there,
Is there anyway to make the tar utility print the contents of the files inside it (not list the files, but rather their contents) sequentially from the command line?
What I ultimately would like to do is to have a way of printing the contents of each file in the tar archive... (2 Replies)
1) I ran myScript with 2 arguments, I meant to use 3
if I do r my, it will rerun it with the 2 arguments. is there a way I can do r my and add a third argument at the end?
2) say I did
myAcript.ksh 2 5 7 8
I realise my typo. is there an easy way to redo the command replacing A with S?
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I have a file which containd a string "old" and I need to replace all old with "new" if and only if it is a string not part of a string like Gold or fold etc.
I tried with sed like below
echo "old gold old" | sed 's/old/new/g'
It doesn't give the desired output, It give "old Gnew new".... (3 Replies)
I downloaded vim.7.2 and compiled the vim source .
Added the vim binary path to PATH (Because iam not the root of the box)
when i load the file using vim it throws me an error
Error detected while processing /home2/e3003091/.vimrc:
line 2:
E185: Cannot find color scheme darkblue
line... (0 Replies)
I found a decent guide of VI basic tricks. This guide does expect you to have a decent understanding of VI. It does not go over very much beginner related.
vi Manual (3 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT ULTRIX
view
view(1) General Commands Manual view(1)Name
view - displays a file using the vi commands
Syntax
view [-t tag] [-r] [+command] [-l] [-wn] [-x] name...
Description
The command displays a text file. The command and the command run almost the same code except that in changes to a file are not allowed.
It is possible to get to the command mode of from within both.
The following is a list of some of the commands. See the vi Beginner's Reference Card and the "Introduction to Display Editing with vi" in
the Supplementary Documents, Volume 1: General User for more details that can be helpful for using
Screen Control Commands
<CTRL/L> Reprints current screen.
<CTRL/Y> Exposes one more line at top of screen.
<CTRL/E> Exposes one more line at bottom of screen.
Paging Commands
<CTRL/F> Pages forward one screen.
<CTRL/B> Pages back one screen.
<CTRL/D> Pages down half screen.
<CTRL/U> Pages up half screen.
Cursor Positioning Commands
j Moves cursor down one line, same column.
k Moves cursor up one line, same column.
h Moves cursor back one character.
l Moves cursor forward one character.
<RETURN> Moves cursor to beginning of next line.
0 Moves cursor to beginning of current line.
$ Moves cursor to end of current line.
<SPACE> Moves cursor forward one character.
nG Moves cursor to beginning of line n. Default is last line of file.
/pattern Moves cursor forward to next occurrence of pattern.
?pattern Moves cursor backward to next occurrence of pattern.
n Repeats last / or ? pattern search.
Exiting view
ZZ Exits
:q Quits session.
Options-t tag Specifies a list of tag files. The tag files are preceded by a backslash () and are separated by spaces. The tag option should
always be the first entry.
+command Tells the editor to begin by executing the specified command. An example would be +/pattern that would search for a pattern.
-l Sets the showmatch and lisp options for viewing LISP code..
-r Retrieves the last saved version of the name'd file in the event of a system crash. If no file is specified, a list of saved
files is produced.
-wn Sets the default window size to n. This option is useful for starting in a small window on dialups. The -x option is available
only if the Encryption layered product is installed.
-x Causes to prompt for a key. The key is used to encrypt and decrypt the contents of the file. If the file has been encrypted
with one key, you must use the same key to decrypt the file.
See Alsoedit(1), ex(1), vi(1)
The Little Gray Book: An ULTRIX Primer
The Big Gray Book: The Next Step with ULTRIX
"An Introduction to Display Editing with vi" in the Supplementary Documents, Volume 1: General User
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