“Text editors” are used to edit the text files in Linux. One of the text editor used in Linux is as below.
Vi/Vim text editor.
Vi is a visual text editor which is available in all the versions of Linux. We can start Vi editor in two ways.
- Without using file name with Vi.
Such that : $Vi, see image below
After hitting enter key below screen appears.
- Using file name with Vi.
Such that: $Vi Jayesh, see below image.
After hitting enter key below screen appears.
Save commands in Vi editor:
“:w” command is used to “save” the file without exit Vi editor.
“:wq” command is used to “save” file and “exit” the Vi editor.
Shown in below image.
Exit the Vi editor command:
“:q” command is used to exit Vi editor without warning message.“
:q!: command is used to exit Vi editor with warning message of exit.
Shown in below image.