[Gllug] Sorting Text in Vi

[robin.c.smith at bt.com]

You can run external commands on lines in a file

e.g. to sort all the file

:1,$!sort

or to do arithmetic on a line where the line is say:-

1024 * 1024

do :.,.!bc

etc

Robin

-----Original Message-----
From: Jackson, Harry [mailto:HJackson at colt-telecom.com]
Sent: 12 March 2002 17:11
To: 'gllug at linux.co.uk'
Subject: [Gllug] Sorting Text in Vi


Hi all

If I have a list of variables in a file that I am editing how can I sort it
using Vi. I have done it today but everytime I try and do it again I find
that I just move to the mark.

I thought I done this 

'a!sort

or something similar but I have forgot can someone tell me what it was I
done this is not on Vim.


Regards;
Harry Jackson.


     


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