UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi
I am newbie for unix. I want to copy few line opened in vi editor (not whole file) and save it some where else. It is like copy and paste but data is quite big . Is there any command i can use in vi to copy data and save it somewhere else.

Thanks
ukadmin

[list=1][*]Put the cursor on the first line you want to copy out.[*]Press "ma", i.e., "m" followed by "a"[*]Go to the last line you want to copy out.[*]Press ":'a,.w filename"[/list=1]
In step 2, you are marking the first line you want to write out with the "a" marker. In step 4, you are selecting all the lines from the "a" marker to the current line, inclusive, and writing them out to "filename".

Searching Google, Yahoo!, etc., for a vi tutorial would be a really good idea.

You can also do it with line numbers...

If you know the starting and ending line numbers, say 1 to 100...

:1,100w newfile <enter>

Thank you very much . That solves the problem.

ukadmin