Unix Tip: MORE AND VI OR MORE VI

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Unix Tip 3533 - October 12, 2015

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MORE AND VI OR MORE VI

To edit a file after looking at it with "more"
Press the letter "v" key and you will be placed
in a vi session.

Quitting the vi session will bring you back
to viewing the file with the "more" command

This will not work with piping a file to "more".

This works:

$ more /etc/hosts

This does not:

$ cat /etc/hosts | more



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