[olug] Unix Tip: VI EXECUTION

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			Unix Tip 1944 - April 28, 2003

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VI EXECUTION

While writing shell scripts 
in vi, have you ever considered
the time wasted by going in 
and out of vi to test your 
commands by executing them on 
the command line.

To increase your productivity, 
it would be a lot quicker if you 
could execute these commands 
from within the editor and view 
their output before writing them 
to your script.

This is possible and quite 
straight forward.  Enter the 
following within vi

:!testscript

(i.e. colon exclamation mark)

Then enter your command as you 
would at the $ or # prompt.  

The command executes, the result 
is displayed and you are propmted 
to press return to continue.


This tip generously supported by:
michael.byrne at nuinternational.com




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