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  The best way to understand these concepts is to actually fire up vi and edit a file. In the example « screens » below, we’re only going to show a few lines of text, as if the screen was only six lines high (instead of twenty-four).

The syntax for vi is

vi where is the name of the file that you wish to edit.

Start up vi by typing

/home/larry# vi test which will edit the file test. You should see something like

The column of « ~ » characters indicates that you are the end of the file.

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Matt Welsh
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