Re: [PLUG] VI without a swapfile?

["K.S. Bhaskar" <bhaskar@bhaskars.com>]

How about something like lfhex (http://stoopidsimple.com/lfhex and in your package repository most likely).

Regards

-- Bhaskar

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Jeff Bailey <skydiver38@verizon.net> wrote:

I can't clean stuff off the filesystem - it's minimal the way it is - the reason that I'm running into the problem is that I'm trying to debug something... ÂEditing elsewhere might work though - hadn't looked at it that way.

Why not sed? ÂI don't know sed. :-) ÂI thought ed might work as well - just hadn't gotten to trying that (and also don't know ed, but, it seemed more accessible than sed).

Thanks, both....

On 2/27/2012 8:16 PM, Carl Johnson wrote:

why not a sed one liner with a regex?





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Gary Duzan<gary@duzan.org> Âwrote:

In Message<4F4C27BD.9030201@verizon.net" target="_blank">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. Â"vi" complains about not being
=>able to create a swapfile, but allows me to edit. ÂThe problem is
that I
=>can't save an edited version, even if all I do is delete lines. ÂI
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> Â/path/to/orig/file".

 Sometimes the primitive tools are best. :-)

 Of course, even better would be to clean stuff off that file
system.

                   ÂGary Duzan


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