select all command in vi

nagabioinfo · 11-24-2007, 12:24 AM

Hello all,

Can anybody tell me the select all and copy command in vi (having thousands of line to copy, so mouse willnt help here). I searched in google and couldnt able to find it.

sincerely
naga

Tinkster · 11-24-2007, 12:34 AM

:%y

Cheers,
Tink

nagabioinfo · 11-24-2007, 12:48 AM

hi,

:%y, yanks all the lines in a vi file, but when i use 'p' to paste it in another file, only 50 lines are pasting.!!!

how do i paste all the yanked lines ??

naga

jschiwal · 11-24-2007, 01:20 AM

I wonder if this is a "vi" memory limitation. I suppose a work around could be to save the range you want to past to a file and then insert that file in the other buffer.

nagabioinfo · 11-24-2007, 02:03 AM

but if its a memory limitation, why its copying/yanking all the lines (around 9300).. ? is there any special paste command to do this..!!

bigrigdriver · 11-24-2007, 04:10 AM

There may be a default yank buffer size, but you may be able to override that default 'on the fly' by specifying the number of lines to yank: 9300yy.

Tinkster · 11-24-2007, 01:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nagabioinfo

but if its a memory limitation, why its copying/yanking all the lines (around 9300).. ? is there any special paste command to do this..!!

Not sure ... I'm using vim here, not vi, and it works just
fine. Yanked & pasted large amounts of data just then.

Code:

$ ls -l log*
-rw-r--r-- 1 tink   tink   4402338 2007-11-25 08:13 log
-rw-r--r-- 1 tink   tink         0 2007-11-25 08:17 log2
$ vim log log2
:%y
412091 lines yanked
:n
p
412091 more lines

Cheers,
Tink

chrism01 · 11-24-2007, 07:58 PM

If I want a whole file or large chunks thereof, i just take a copy of the file and chop the top/bottom as needed.
I use the ctrl-g combo to find the line nums/amts to remove from the copy, then save (:w) and import using :r file.tmp.

jschiwal · 11-25-2007, 03:53 AM

You can write a portion of a file by giving the line number range as well:
For example:
:100,1100w filename
You don't need to delete any lines.

nagabioinfo · 11-25-2007, 11:11 PM

but the file i need to copy is in remote machine, if i need to do a scp from my system i need the password of the remote system, which i dont have (the guy who knows the password is on vacation, but i have logged into machine before he left). the only possible way i can do this is to copy all those lines from the remote machine file and paste it in a new file in my machine.

naga

Tinkster · 11-26-2007, 12:01 AM

Errrh .... if you have a remote session on the other box open,
why don't you just scp FROM there to your own box? Surely you
know your own password on your local machine?

Cheers,
Tink

nagabioinfo · 11-26-2007, 12:12 AM

ya..!! but its an one way network, i can do scp only from my machine, and scp from the remote cluster is blocked.

naga

chrism01 · 11-26-2007, 01:18 AM

Talk you local sysadmin

jschiwal · 11-26-2007, 08:52 AM

If you are logged in remotely, you can scp from the remote shell to your local machine.
Then you need to enter password on your local machine which you know.

scp file you@localmachine:file