author: arnold robbins

Unix in a Nutshell

... vim supports both ways of editing, through the insertmode option and the evim command for invoking vim. vi is based on an older line editor called ex. (ex, in turn, was developed by Bill Joy at the University of California, Berkeley ...

UNIX in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference for System V Release 4 and Solaris 7

... command ) positioning ) horizontal spacing ( see whitespace ) host machine , 83 hostid command , 83 hostname command ... ipcs command , 84 ismpx command , 550 jar command , 85 java command , 86 java_g command , 88 Java language applets ...

Learning the Korn Shell: Unix Programming

... engage in a login session that begins when you log in and ends when you exit or press CTRL-D.* During a login ... act. For example, the command line lpr myfile consists of the command lpr (print a file) and the single argument myfile ...

Learning the Korn Shell: Unix Programming

The authors maintain that you shouldn't have to be an internals expert to use and program the shell effectively.The second edition covers all the features of the current version of the Korn shell, including many new features not in earlier ...

Linux Programming by Example

Readers will enjoy an interesting mix of in-depth API descriptions and portability guidelines, and will come away well prepared to begin reading and writing systems applications. "This is an excellent introduction to Linux programming.

Learning the Vi and Vim Editors

... Vim commands with which to do work on the visually selected text. This lets you do much more sophisticated work on highlighted text than the traditional cut and paste actions in less sophisticated editors. You can select a visual area in ...

Effective AWK Programming: A User's Guide for GNU AWK

... expression whose value is taken as a string ; it specifies how to output each of the other arguments . It is called the format string . The format string is very similar to that in the ANSI C library function printf . Most of format is ...

Learning the Vi and Vim Editors

... can also define alternate editing environments by saving option settings in a file other than .exrc and reading in that file with the :so command. (so is short for source.) For example: :so .progoptions The editor does not use a search ...

Learning the Vi Editor

... ( vim ) , 195 shell , UNIX , 104 shell option ( vim ) , 195 , 215 shellpipe ... commands command ( vile ) , 231 showmode option , 150 , 212 : shrink ... vim editor , 212 slash ( V , V ( matching ) commands ( vim ) , 224 pathname separator ...

Linux in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference

A Desktop Quick Reference Ellen Siever, Stephen Figgins, Robert Love, Arnold Robbins. setterm -bold [on|off] Turn ... clrtabs [tab1...tabn] With no arguments, clear all tab stops. Otherwise, clear the specified tab stops. Virtual consoles ...

vi and Vim Editors Pocket Reference: Support for every text editing task

This second edition includes: Command-line options vi commands and set options Input mode shortcuts Substitution and regular expressions ex commands and options Initialization and recovery Enhanced tags and tag stacks A greatly expanded ...

Learning the vi and Vim Editors

... GitHub repository. In our GitHub repo, the tutorial is in the directory unix-world-tutorial. If you use Firefox as your browser (for example), it should be enough to do: 1 $ cd unix-world-tutorial $ firefox ./009-index.html & Use the ...

Linux in a Nutshell

... decrypt [file] Decrypt a file. If no file is specified, stdin is decrypted. Decrypted data is sent to stdout or to ... help Display a help message. --import-ownertrust [file] Import trust values from a file or stdin. Overwrites existing ...

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