Sun Certified Solaris(tm) 9 System and Network Administrator All-in-One Exam Guide

In this chapter, you will

• Learn how to use the vi editor

• Create new text files

• Edit existing text files

An editor is used primarily to create new text files or edit existing text files. Few UNIX users would have escaped learning about the visual editor ( vi ) when first learning how to use a Solaris shell. In this chapter, the aim is to review some of the more esoteric vi usages, and to review commonly used command-mode and ex-mode commands.