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Old 04-08-2006
Yank a column in vi
I have a file which has data in columns.
Is there a way to yank columns in vi?
I tried searching in this forum. I did not find it.
Please help me out.
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Old 04-08-2006
Most versions of vi support the C-x commands.

Try man vi and look for open-rectangle, clear-rectangle, yank-rectangle,
delete-rectangle

If you have a big file and you want to lose,say all of column #5 in the entire file, try awk, it's a lot easier.
Code:
awk ' { print $1, $2, $3 , $5, $6}' oldfile>newfile

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Old 04-09-2006
Thanks for the info. I know that this can be done with awk. I wanted to know if there is a way via VI itself.
 
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