Editing with VI

Duration

4 hours

Overview

The Editing with vi course describes how the vi Editor is used to open, and update text files. Editing techniques such as searching, filtering, finding, copying and replacing text is covered and some advanced material relating to the editor configuration and programming support is also provided.

Audience

System operators and other personnel who are new to the Linux environment and the VI text editor distributed with Linux

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of Linux

Objectives

After completing this course, the student will be able to identify how to:

• Create, edit, and save text files with the VI editor
• Move through large text files efficiently
• Manipulate large blocks of text with operations such as cut, paste, search, and replace
• Sort data inside a text file
• Call external filters
• Write macros

Course Content

Editing with vi Mastery Test