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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Copy code to vi Post 48660 by rooh on Friday 12th of March 2004 06:57:42 PM

03-12-2004

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Hi ,

Basically this is what I am doing.

Suppose my .txt file looks like this

Code:

# check that the file exists
	Say Hello all
		Do it correctly
	place it on the server
	Do all you can
	Save as much as you can
	Think for the rainy day
	Life is a bed of thorns and face it,either smilingly or you wet ur face

Now when I copy these lines and paste it on a vi i.e.
vi tmp_rooh.ksh

It looks like the one below
***********************************************

Code:

# check that the file exists
        Say Hello all
                        Do it correctly
                                place it on the server
                                        Do all you can
                                                Save as much as you can
                                                        Think for the rainy day
                                                                Life is a bed of thorns and face it,either smilingly or you w
et ur face

*************************************************
I want it to look exactly the same as the one in .txt and not like the one above.

Hope this makes it a bit clear.
If it just a few lines of code I can manually do it but there are codes of 1000's of lines and I need to copy them from the text file and put it on unix .

Thanks

Code tags added -- Perderabo

Last edited by Perderabo; 03-12-2004 at 11:32 PM..

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LEARN ABOUT MINIX

cp

CP(1)							      General Commands Manual							     CP(1)

NAME

       cp, cpdir - file copy

SYNOPSIS

       cp [-pifsmrRvx] file1 file2
       cp [-pifsrRvx] file ... directory
       cpdir [-ifvx] file1 file2

OPTIONS

       -p     Preserve full mode, uid, gid and times

       -i     Ask before removing existing file

       -f     Forced remove existing file

       -s     Make similar, copy some attributes

       -m     Merge trees, disable the into-a-directory trick

       -r     Copy directory trees with link structure, etc. intact

       -R     Copy directory trees and treat special files as ordinary

       -v     Display what cp is doing

       -x     Do not cross device boundaries

EXAMPLES

       cp oldfile newfile  # Copy oldfile to newfile

       cp -R dir1 dir2	   # Copy a directory tree

DESCRIPTION

       Cp  copies one file to another, or copies one or more files to a directory.  Special files are normally opened and read, unless -r is used.
       -r also copies the link structure, something -R doesn't care about.  The -s option differs from -p that it only copies  the  times  if  the
       target file already exists.  A normal copy only copies the mode of the file, with the file creation mask applied.  Set-uid bits are cleared
       if the owner cannot be set.  (The -s flag does not patronize you by clearing bits.  Alas -s and -r are nonstandard.)

       Cpdir is a convenient synonym for cp -psmr to make a precise copy of a directory tree.

SEE ALSO

       cat(1), mkdir(1), rmdir(1), ln(1), rm(1).

																	     CP(1)