Re: [PLUG] VI without a swapfile?

[Carl Johnson <cjohnson19791979@gmail.com>]

why not a sed one liner with a regex?





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Gary Duzan <gary@duzan.org> wrote:

>In Message <4F4C27BD.9030201@verizon.net>,
>   Jeff Bailey <skydiver38@verizon.net>wrote:
>
>=>Without getting into all the gory details, I have a loopback
>filesystem 
>=>mounted (a file containing a filesystem) which is considered 100%
>full 
>=>(according to "df").
>=>
>=>I need to edit a file on that mount.  "vi" complains about not being 
>=>able to create a swapfile, but allows me to edit.  The problem is
>that I 
>=>can't save an edited version, even if all I do is delete lines.  I
>think 
>=>this stems from the fact that vi tries to save a backup copy, and
>fails 
>=>since there's no room.
>
>   Copy the file to another file system, edit it there, then
>"cat /path/to/copied/file > /path/to/orig/file".
>
>   Sometimes the primitive tools are best. :-)
>
>   Of course, even better would be to clean stuff off that file
>system.
>
>					Gary Duzan
>
>
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