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vi copy from line number to line number
You can use split, or sed
Lets use command sed for example
in below given example we have start line number: 143 end line number 201 and file name: filter.log
output to file called outfile.log
# sed -n '143,201p' filter.log > outfile.log
other way to achieve copy:
Block selection VI
Using marker we can achieve that too.
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Type
mk
to mark this spot as
k
.
Go to the end of the section you want.
Type: y’k (y= Yank,
Now p will do your job
Also you could use d’k to cut/delete.
Vi comment out block / VI comment multiple lines
Go to the line and hit
1) m{CHAR} or m{a}
and
2) put e mark in m{CHAR} in the end of the line
When you have marked a with start of line and e with end of line
type
3) :’a,’e s/^/# /
You can also use line numbers,
1 to $ ($ is the last line)
solitary % for everyline
. or blank for the current line.
To illustrate the “blank”, these two commands do the same thing:
:,$ s/^/# /
:.,$ s/^/# /
Finding / Locating
locate
which
whereis
Search and list all files, in given directory and narrow search for given string..
find ./ -name "*" -exec grep -Hi "which string to search" {} ;
Find all user files larger than 5Mb:
find /home -size +5000000c -print
Find all files created or updated in the last five minutes: (Great for finding effects of make install)
find / -cmin -5
Find files modified in the last two days:
find / -mtime 2 -o -ctime 2
Disk Check/ Usages, Space, Filesystem type
df -k :::::::::report filesystem disk space usage. (-k reports in Kbytes)
du -sh :::::::::Calculates file space usage for a given directory. (and everything under it) (-s option summarizes)