I have a file called test, I open it using vi as such:
vi test
Now I want to insert a line through a shell command, for simplicity I use a printf:
:r! printf %s hello
However the line that is entered is
tests
i.e. the name of the file with a s appended.
If I enter the same command in terminal directly, it works fine.
What I want to do is ultimately be able to encode a string in base64 and enter it on the same line as where my cursor is in vi, so that I won't have to copy the string in a separate terminal, encode it, and copy it back into vi. How can I do this? What am I doing wrong?
The first stage of processing a command line in vim is expanding it. % is expanded to the name of the current file — test in your case. %s is expanded to tests.
To avoid expanding protect the special character with a backslash:
:r! printf \%s hello
Related
My python script can take a series of bitwise operators as one of its arguments. They all work fine except for "=<<" which is roll left, and "=>>" which is roll right. I run my script like ./script.py -b +4,-4,=>>10,=<<1, where anything after -b can be any combination of similar operations. As soon as the terminal sees "<<" though, it just drops the cursor to a new line after the command and asks for more input instead of running the script. When it sees ">>", my script doesn't process the arguments correctly. I know it's because bash uses these characters for a specific purpose, but I'd like to get around it while still using "=>>" and "=<<" in my arguments for my script. Is there any way to do it without enclosing the argument in quotation marks?
Thank you for your help.
You should enclose the parameters that contain special symbols into single quotation marks (here, echo represents your script):
> echo '+4,-4,=>>10,=<<1'
+4,-4,=>>10,=<<1
Alternatively, save the parameters to a file (say, params.txt) and read them from the file onto the command line using the backticks:
> echo `cat params.txt`
+4,-4,=>>10,=<<1
Lastly, you can escape some offending symbols:
> echo +4,-4,=\>\>10,=\<\<1
+4,-4,=>>10,=<<1
I want to create a new file using vi editor from command line and add a string to it multiple times say 100. Using vi -S command.script file.txt is supposed to do the trick where a new file file.txt will be created and the commands given in command.script file can write to this file. My command.script contains
:%100a hello world
:wq
But its's not working, what I am doing wrong?
If you interactively execute :%100a hello world in a Vim session, you'll get E488: Trailing characters. Looking up :help :a:
:{range}a[ppend][!] Insert several lines of text below the specified
line. If the {range} is missing, the text will be
inserted after the current line. [...]
These two commands will keep on asking for lines, until you type a line
containing only a ".".
tells you that the text has to be put in following lines (and concluded by a line with only a . character).
Or did you mean to use the normal mode a command? (That one takes a [count] to multiply; your %100 range is wrong, too!)
You can also use the low-level function append(), repeating the string with repeat().
summary
$append
hello world
[...]
hello world
.
execute "$normal! 100ahello world\<CR>"
" Easier with o instead of a:
$normal! 100ohello world
call append('$', repeat(['hello world'], 100))
non-Vim alternatives
But honestly, if that is your real use case (and not just a simplified toy example), you don't need Vim at all for this. Here's one example for the Bash shell:
$ for i in $(seq 100); do echo "hello world" >> file.txt; done
I have a an interactive Perl script, which prints prompts to STDERR and reads lines from STDIN. The final output of this script is an IP address, printed to STDOUT. Here's a numpty version of such a script as an example.
my #pieces;
for (1..4) {
print STDERR "please enter piece $_ of the IP:"; chomp(my $in = <>);
push #pieces, $in;
}
print join '.', #pieces;
print "\n";
I use the vim-fireplace vim plugin. This plugin has a feature where I can say:
:Connect nrepl://127.0.0.1:9999
I want to know how to configure vim so that when I issue a particular command, let's say:
:InteractiveConnect
it will do the following:
Run the Perl script, allowing me to enter 4 pieces of the IP address.
Capture the IP address output by the Perl script.
Interpolate the IP address into the :Connect command
Run the :Connect command.
A bit more info based on some of the responses:
If I call this script using:
:!/path/to/myscript.pl
Then it executes fine and I am able to see the result from it printed in the vim window, followed by
Press ENTER or type command to continue
If the output of the script is being saved in some buffer after execution via !, is it possible to get access to that buffer in vimscript and just capture the bit I want (the last line) with a regex?
Okay, there's probably a more elegant way to do this, but how about this:
function! <SID>InteractiveConnect()
let tempfile=tempname()
exe '!/path/to/your/script.pl >' . shellescape(tempfile)
try
exe 'Connect nrepl://' . readfile(tempfile, '', -1)[0]
finally
call delete(tempfile)
endtry
endfunction
command! -nargs=0 InteractiveConnect call <SID>InteractiveConnect()
This creates a temporary file, writes to it with the script (using system() doesn't work because it doesn't wait for input), reads the last line in the tempfile to the Connect command, and then finally deletes the tempfile.
Maybe something like:
exec 'Connect nrepl://' . matchstr(system('your/script.pl'), '^.\+\%$')
(Untested.) This runs the script using system() then matches the output against the regular expression ^.\+\%$, (where \%$ means end-of-file; if your file is terminated with a newline, an additional \n might be neccessary before it) and feeds the matched str to the Connect command. .
I have received a csv file from a ftp server which I am ingesting into a table.
While ingesting the file I am receiving the error "File was a truncated file"
The actual reason is the data in a file contains $ and ^M$ in end of the line.
e.g :
ACT_RUN_TM, PROG_RUN_TM, US_HE_DT*^M$*
"CONFIRMED","","3600"$
How can I remove these $ and ^M$ from end of the line using linux command.
The ultimately correct solution is to transfer the file from the FTP server in text mode rather than binary mode, which does the appropriate end-of-line conversion for you. Change your download scripts or FTP application configuration to enable text transfers to fix this in future.
Assuming this is a one-shot transfer and you have already downloaded the file and just want to fix it, you can use tr(1) to translate characters. So to remove all control-M characters from a file, you can pipe through tr -d '\r'. Or if you want to replace them with control-J instead – for example you would do this if the file came from a pre-OSX Mac system — do tr '\r' '\n'.
It's odd to see ^M as not-the-last character, but:
sed -e 's/^M*\$$//g' <badfile >goodfile
Or use "sed -i" to update in-place.
(Note that "^M" is entered on the command line by pressing CTRL-V CTRL_M).
Update: It's been established that the question is wrong as the "^M$" are not in the file but displayed with VI. He actually wants to change CRLF pairs to just LF.
sed -e 's/^M$//g' <badfile >goodfile
I'm looking for a command in VI/VIM to search for particular text in the file and grab the whole line and output in either on the screen or separate file. e.g.
This is some line with this _word_ and some other text.
This is some line with this some other text and some other text.
so this would output only the first line..
:redir > output.txt
:g/_word_/p
:redir END
The line will be output to the screen and to output.txt. See :h :redir.
EDIT: I agree with others who suggest using plain old *nix grep if you can. Situations where you might not be able to use grep:
You're searching buffer text that doesn't exist in a file on the filesystem.
You're using Vim-specific regex extensions, like cursor location, column number, marks, etc.
You want do this in a cross-platform way, and grep might not exist on the system you're using.
redir can be useful in these situations.
use the g (global) command:
:g/_word_/y
will yank all lines containing _word_
having mentioned the DOS find command, you probably want to use grep:
grep -h '_word_' * > results
in vi, from command mode
search for _word_
/_word_
yank the line
yy
paste the line
p