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- Choosing an Editor: nano/pico or vi/vim
- Starting nano and Dabbling with It
- Saving in nano
- Cutting and Pasting Text Blocks in nano
- Checking Spelling in nano
- Getting Help in nano
- Exiting nano
- Starting vi (or vim) and Dabbling with It
- Saving in vi
- Adding and Deleting Text in vi
- Importing Files into vi
- Searching and Replacing in vi
- Exiting vi
This chapter is from the book
Importing Files into vi
You can also merge multiple files in vi by reading additional files into the current one, as shown in . Basically, all this means is that you insert one file into the file you’re currently editing.
To import files in vi:
vi hairyspider
At the shell prompt, type vi followed by the filename—in this case, the hairyspider file.
:r filename
At the point in the file where you want to import text, press , then type :r and the filename you want to read into the file.