Copy in VI editor

ZAMO · 12-14-2007, 12:13 AM

Hi Guys,

I am working on remotely using putty to my server. I have a file which has
1866778 lines of text. From that i need to copy from 1191715 to 1195161 and paste it in the local computer's textpad.

How can i do it? Please let me know.

Q2. How can i copy the entire text of a file with 1866778 lines (ex:logs) in a remote server to my local computer, where am working on putty?

Thanks in Advance.

deadeyes · 12-14-2007, 02:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ZAMO

Hi Guys,

I am working on remotely using putty to my server. I have a file which has
1866778 lines of text. From that i need to copy from 1191715 to 1195161 and paste it in the local computer's textpad.

How can i do it? Please let me know.

Q2. How can i copy the entire text of a file with 1866778 lines (ex:logs) in a remote server to my local computer, where am working on putty?

Thanks in Advance.

Open your favorite editor, which is definitely VIM

Set the line numbers on by typing
:se nu
Go to the correct line by typing
:1191715
Press V for using visual mode. Now you can move your cursor until the line you want.
Then press Y to copy the lines.
Open the target file by typing
:sv targetfile
and press P in it.
Now save and exit by typing
:wq

You can copy the file by using scp.
scp user@remote-host:/path/to/file /local/destination

DONE

antis · 12-14-2007, 02:13 AM

The easiest way is probably to do something like this:

Code:

head -n 1195161 yourfile.txt | tail -n 3446 > tempfile.txt

...and then copy the file to your local computer with scp/ftp.

Disillusionist · 12-14-2007, 02:21 AM

vi file
:191715,1195161 wq! newfile

You can even pass this in using echo:

Code:

echo ":191715,1195161 wq! newfile" | vi file

ZAMO · 12-14-2007, 02:26 AM

Great guys.

i did it. I need to study a lot.
thank you again for the timely help of both

archtoad6 · 12-19-2007, 11:48 AM

Actually don't use a head/tail pipe to extract from the middle of a file, use sed instead:

Code:

sed -n  '1191715,1195161p'  source_file  > output_file

That way you can use absolute line #'s in the command.

Code:

head -n 1195161 yourfile.txt | tail -n 3446 > tempfile.txt

is really:

Code:

FIRST=1191715
LAST=1195161
head -n $LAST yourfile.txt  | tail -n $(($LAST-$FIRST+1))  > tempfile.txt

if "from 1191715 to 1195161" is meant to be inclusive.

xlq · 12-19-2007, 12:53 PM

1191715ggV1195161y:new
p

1191715gg - go to line 1191715
V - enter visual (selection) mode
1195161gg - go to line 1195161
y - yank selection
:new - open a new buffer
p - paste