On Sat, Feb 06, 2010 at 03:29:25PM -0500, John Holp wrote: > Redhat wizards, > > I am doing good with auditing but want to copy key lines from example files > into /etc/audit/audit.rules > > What is the vi/vim syntax to copy lines from one file and post them into > another file - i.e. my audit.rules file? > > 5yy appears to yank the current line and 4 more and one can paste the > buffered lines into the same file but I want to pass the lines to a different > file. > > :h file_name I recall from along ago but that is for an entire file - I > think: > > Please help me to copy files from sample auditing files into my real > "audit.rules".
Switch to another file, then paste there... The most portable way is :n <filename><CR> but in almost all vi variants there's a way to split the window and open a new file there. For nvi that would be :Vi <filename><CR> for vim - :split <filename><CR> and switching between those subwindows is ^W in nvi an ^Ww in vim. -- Linux-audit mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-audit
