CentOS Linux Server Guide

Vi Editor - Cut and Paste and Undo Text or Sentences Using Keyboard

Cutting and past text is not an easy job unless you internalized some of the common keys below.

Keyboard Operation

x delete current character

Nx N refer to number, delete the number of character(s) from the right

X delete the character left to the cursor

dd delete the entire line where position of the cursor located

d$ delete all the lines that from where the cursor is to the end of line

d^ delete all the lines from beginning until where the position of the cursor.

yy copy current line

Nyy N refer to number, copy the current and the N number of lines next to it

p paste to the position next the cursor

u undo your operation

Example

In the following example, you will open up the mail.log and go the 2nd line of the file

vi mail.log +2

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