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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Need to overwrite shell script using vi editor Post 302793017 by kimberlyg2007 on Thursday 11th of April 2013 02:05:58 PM
Old 04-11-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by DukeNuke2
just go to insert mode in vi (esc i) and paste the text from the email via right mouse button to the terminal/cygwin window.
That is exactly what I tried. When I paste the text from the email, it actually puts the lines of text I just deleted back instead of my email.

esc + p command per the vi command list I found from googling says esc + p "to paste the text just deleted or copied at the cursor".

It's pasting the test I deleted, but I want it to paste the text I just copied from the email.
 

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paste

PASTE(1)								FSF								  PASTE(1)

NAME

       paste - merge lines of files

SYNOPSIS

       paste [OPTION]... [FILE]...

DESCRIPTION

       Write  lines  consisting  of  the sequentially corresponding lines from each FILE, separated by TABs, to standard output.  With no FILE, or
       when FILE is -, read standard input.

       Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.

       -d, --delimiters=LIST
	      reuse characters from LIST instead of TABs

       -s, --serial
	      paste one file at a time instead of in parallel

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
	      output version information and exit

AUTHOR

       Written by David M. Ihnat and David MacKenzie.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
       This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU-
       LAR PURPOSE.

SEE ALSO

       The  full  documentation  for paste is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info and paste programs are properly installed at your site,
       the command

	      info paste

       should give you access to the complete manual.

paste (coreutils) 4.5.3 					   February 2003							  PASTE(1)
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