I'm using SunOS 5.9 and the version of vi on this machine has several differences, compared to other machines I use, that don't produce the desired result. For example, if I open a text file in vi and then enter the following in command mode:
I'm expecting vi to replace all spaces with a carriage return. Instead, it replaces all spaces with an "r". I've tried using \r\n, \n, \n\r and I still get the same result. This seems to be prevalent on all Solaris/SunOS hosts I use.
How do I determine the version of vi I am using? --version is not an option. When I determine the version how can I make the edits from within vi as described?
The action you describe is what I would have expected actually. You need to enter a control character so press CTRL-V which allows entry of a control character, then press enter like this:
Note when you press CTRL-V you will see a circumflex appear to indicate its waiting for the control character. When you press Enter you will see it change to ^M (which is actually 1 character, a control character). Try it, you'll see.
I did try this just now and thankfully I do have access to this editor but I was unable to achieve the desired result. If there's something I would try other than the sed commands I or kalpeer listed I'm not aware of it but I'll research further the differences between your suggestion and the usual vi I use.
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Originally Posted by gary_w
The action you describe is what I would have expected actually. You need to enter a control character so press CTRL-V which allows entry of a control character, then press enter like this:
Note when you press CTRL-V you will see a circumflex appear to indicate its waiting for the control character. When you press Enter you will see it change to ^M (which is actually 1 character, a control character). Try it, you'll see.
I'm on Sun 5.8 by the way.
This did work for me! How rude of vi! I'll try out other control characters - thank you all for your help.
Nothing rude about it! lol. That's how UNIX is designed to work. You need a way to tell vi to ignore the following key sequence as command, and read it as the character itself instead. The designers chose the CTRL-V sequence to do this, that's all.
Here's a table that shows control characters for various keys like TAB and ESC, etc that may come in handy: ASCII Table - table of ASCII codes.
You can enter control characters in the same way too. See what happens when you type this:
I have one other problem - the nbsp character (\255)...I realise to enter ctrl character mode I press CTRL + V, but what do I enter to represent the nbsp? I googled and can't find where it relates to the keyboard.
Edit - actually I found out 255 is not nbsp - or at least my editor is returning ctrl + shift + space as \240.
Edit2 - ok now I see that \255 is a type of hyphen...how do I remove them all other than going to the \255 and using the x command to erase it? ---------- Post updated 02-16-12 at 11:27 AM ---------- Previous update was 02-15-12 at 05:42 PM ----------
I got the answer sort of - I use the following in vi to remove the \255's:
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