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Revision as of 15:25, 11 March 2010

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Description

The vi (visual) utility is a powerful text file editor that can be accessed from the command line terminal. It is installed to the device by default.

Packages

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Usage Examples

Open up a file for viewing and editing:

# vi myfile.txt

Exit from vi: type ESC:q!, that's ESC, colon, q and an exclamation mark.

Edit the opened file: press 'i'. In this mode you are able to make changes to the file.

To save changes type: ESC:w, that's ESC, colon, w.

To save changes and quit: ESC:wq

Links

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi

See Also

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