What you show seems not to be a plain "vi", because it wouldn't have such a display. You probably mean "vim", which is a popular (but not really compatible) vi-look-alike mostly used in Linux-systems.
Could you please clarify what exactly system you are on and which vi (-clone) you are using? To find this out you can (among others) use the following commands:
Maybe this question is out there, but I searched and didnt see it.
To print my files I use
more filename | lpr -Pprinter
I would like to print my scripts with line numbers.
How do I do this? (2 Replies)
Hello..
I have got one file ...
I want to add line numbers with space form starting to ending..
for example...if the file is
--------------------------
sand sorcd 2345 345
recds 234 234 5687
yeres 568 988 erfg4 67
--------------------------
I need the output
... (4 Replies)
Hi i would like to add line numbers to end of each line in a file.
I am able to do it in the front of each line using sed, but not able to add at the end of the file.
Can anyone suggest
The following code adds line number to start of each line
sed = filename | sed 'N;s/\n/\t/'
how can i... (5 Replies)
Hi all,
I have a file consisting of lines in such a format: separated by space and M1 EOS for fullstop (.) ]
e.g
M1 I
M1 have
M1 a
M1 file
M1 consisting
M1 of
M1 lines
M1 in
M1 such
M1 a
M1 format
M1 EOS
M2 This
M2 is
M3 an (4 Replies)
hi there ,
i m new to unix , i d like to ask how can a get only even numbered lines matches with the word i search from txt file
for example :
3461:1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern
3471:1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project... (17 Replies)
I know if i use grep -n that the output will have the lines numbered but is there a way to grep the actually line number.
so like this
grep -n "one" /usr/dict/numbers
1:one
21:twenty-one
31:thirty-one
41:forty-one
51:fifty-one
61:sixty-one
71:seventy-one
81:eighty-one
91:ninety-one
... (1 Reply)
Hi! I'm trying to assign line numbers to each line of the file
for example consider the following..
The contents of the input file are
hello how are you?
I'm fine.
How about you?
I'm trying to get the following output..
1 hello how are you?
2 I'm fine.
3 How about you? ... (8 Replies)
Hi Folks,
I have opened a log file through Vi editor in putty itself and I was searching for a pattern in logs , let say 'ABCD'
/abcd
then I want to come out from vi editor, Please advise what is the command to come out from unix editor..! (1 Reply)
How would you grep for a line containing only 5 numbers? Something like this.
10 2 12 1 13 (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: cokedude
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shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$SHELL -c". This doesn't work as intended:
ssh host touch 'hi there' # fails
It creates 2 files, hi and there. Instead, do this:
cmd=`shell-quote touch 'hi there'`
ssh host "$cmd"
This gives you just 1 file, hi there.
process find output
It's not ordinarily possible to process an arbitrary list of files output by find with a shell script. Anything you put in $IFS to
split up the output could legitimately be in a file's name. Here's how you can do it using shell-quote:
eval set -- `find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 shell-quote --`
debug shell scripts
shell-quote is better than echo for debugging shell scripts.
debug() {
[ -z "$debug" ] || shell-quote "debug:" "$@"
}
With echo you can't tell the difference between "debug 'foo bar'" and "debug foo bar", but with shell-quote you can.
save a command for later
shell-quote can be used to build up a shell command to run later. Say you want the user to be able to give you switches for a command
you're going to run. If you don't want the switches to be re-evaluated by the shell (which is usually a good idea, else there are
things the user can't pass through), you can do something like this:
user_switches=
while [ $# != 0 ]
do
case x$1 in
x--pass-through)
[ $# -gt 1 ] || die "need an argument for $1"
user_switches="$user_switches "`shell-quote -- "$2"`
shift;;
# process other switches
esac
shift
done
# later
eval "shell-quote some-command $user_switches my args"
OPTIONS --debug
Turn debugging on.
--help
Show the usage message and die.
--version
Show the version number and exit.
AVAILABILITY
The code is licensed under the GNU GPL. Check http://www.argon.org/~roderick/ or CPAN for updated versions.
AUTHOR
Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
perl v5.16.3 2010-06-11 SHELL-QUOTE(1)