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Old 04-26-2006
Is there any way to open vi on line or word ?

Hello
is there any way to open vi on specific line number or string when starting vi ?
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Old 04-26-2006
From man pages in Tru64:
Quote:
-c subcommand
Performs the specified ex subcommand before editing begins.

This subcommand may actually consist of several commands separated by
vertical line (|) characters.
I just tried vi -c 20 somefile.txt and it went to line 20 of somefile.txt after opening it up.
 
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