saving with vi

Rain Designs · Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2002 4:26 am Post subject: saving with vi

n00b here...

how do I save with the text editor vi.

And there is a reason why I'm not using nano!

Thanks

Rain
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pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

ESC will get you out of editing modes
: will give you the vi prompt
w will write the file
wq will write & quit

Google probably has some more information on vi.
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rac · Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2002 5:42 am Post subject:

ZZ will also save and quit, and it's easier to type than ":wq<CR>".
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mooman · Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2002 6:30 am Post subject:

and :q! will quit without saving any changes. Useful when you accidently clobber something. My usual sequence... :q! followed by cursor-up (to get the last vi command again), followed by Enter..

I use this a lot when I fatfinger vi files... (There is a 'U' command that is supposed to undo the last action, but sometimes I've done more than one line of changes...)
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Rain Designs · Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2002 6:31 am Post subject:

thanks

one last thing...

lets say I want ALL the files and folders in the folder "temp" to have privledge 775, how do I do this?

I tried to go through ssh and right click on "temp" and setting the privledge to 775 there but, only "temp" had value 775.

Thanks

Rain
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mooman · Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2002 6:40 am Post subject:

You say "right click" so I take it you're using a graphical file manager of some sort?

The classical way is just to change to that directory in a shell and do a recursive chmod there, specifically:

hook · Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2002 6:44 am Post subject:

chmod -R 775 temp
or
cd temp; chmod -R 775 *

in vi, use <ESC> ZZ ,it is said to be safer (don't know why or how...but it is said so)
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rac · Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2002 7:09 am Post subject:

Won't "chmod *" miss files and directories whose name begins with a '.' under default globbing rules?
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hook · Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2002 7:15 am Post subject:

nope, tried it and

Rain Designs · Posted: Wed Dec 25, 2002 4:29 am Post subject:

awesome

Thanks for all the help

Rain
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rac · Posted: Wed Dec 25, 2002 5:16 am Post subject:

hook · Posted: Wed Dec 25, 2002 8:39 am Post subject: