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Increment next number in vim
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CTRL + A ( in normal mode )

Zulu · 2012-09-28 08:52:56 5
Open all files with a regular expression in vim
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vim $(grep [REGULAR_EXPRESSION] -R * | cut -d":" -f1 | uniq)

eduardostalinho · 2012-11-07 19:30:24 4
Open (in vim) all modified files in a git repository

This oneliner gets all the 'modified' files in your git repository, and opens all of them in vim. Very handy when you're starting to work in the morning and you simply want to review your modified files before committing them. Maybe there are better ways to do that (and maybe integrated in vim and/or git, who knows), but I found quicker to do this oneliner.
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vim `git status | grep modified | awk '{print $3}'`

TetsuyO · 2012-11-19 09:48:46 6
vi a remote file with port

vim can open ssh/sftp and ftp connections for file editing using 'netrw'. If no path or file is provided vim opens the directory as a filelist. See: :help netrw.
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vim sftp://[user@]host.domain.tld:[port]/[path/][file]

khayyam · 2013-03-24 01:31:20 5
Open (in vim) all modified files in a git repository

Opens all files in the index (modified plus not added yet) in tabs in vim.
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vim -p `git --porcelain | awk {print $2}`

cnelsonsic · 2013-04-29 21:52:23 6
Open a file using vim in read only (like less)
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view /file/name

mc0e · 2013-05-24 09:40:46 8
vim - save document with privileges from vim
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:w !sudo tee %

KodjoSuprem · 2013-09-25 08:56:21 6
vi show line numbers

Prints line numbers making it easier to see long lines that wrap in your terminal and extra line breaks at the end of a file. :set nu works too. Show Sample Output
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```
1 sample text file
2 blah blah blah
3 last line
4
```
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:set number

sonic · 2013-10-07 15:03:52 6
Format source code noninteractively (possibly en masse) using vim's formatting functionality

The equivalent of opening each file in vim and doing gg=G:wq . Bufdo makes it faster by obviating the need to start vim for each file separately.
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vim +"bufdo norm gg=G" +wa +qa FILES

pjump · 2013-12-06 22:15:24 6
Open (in vim) all modified files in a git repository

Works even with spaces in filenames. As an alias in .gitconfig: [alias] editchanged = "!git status --porcelain | sed -ne 's/^ M //p' | tr '\\n' '\\0' | tr -d '\"' | xargs -0 vim"
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git status --porcelain | sed -ne 's/^ M //p' | tr '\n' '\0' | tr -d '"' | xargs -0 vim

uschrisf · 2014-05-08 08:36:27 7
Save a file you edited in vim without the needed permissions
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w !sudo cat >%

parsa · 2014-08-03 17:31:01 7
Update git-based vim plugins in a command
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cd ~/.vim/bundle/ ; LS="$(ls -1)" ; for DIR in ${LS[@]} ; do cd $DIR ; git pull ; cd .. ; done

caneta · 2015-08-26 10:36:53 8
Select to character in visual mode
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Vja<character>

minademian · 2018-12-14 11:01:40 28
Open clipboard content on vim

Instead of using clipboard register after opening vim we can use this command in order to edit clipboard content. For those who already have "xclip -i -selection clipboard -o" aliased to pbpaste it is yet more simple, just: alias vcb='pbpaste | vim -'
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alias vcb='xclip -i -selection clipboard -o | vim -'

voyeg3r · 2018-12-15 11:43:15 33
Emptying a text file in one shot

deletes to the end of the buffer Show Sample Output
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```
~
```
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ggdG

slim · 2009-08-19 11:40:55 3

Remove ^M characters at end of lines in vi

Whereas ^V is CTRL-V. converts a dos file to unix by removing 0x13 characters Show Sample Output

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:%s/^V^M//g

slim · 2009-08-19 11:59:22 4

Edit all files found having a specific string found by grep

needs no GNU tools, as far as I see it
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find . -exec grep foobar /dev/null {} \; | awk -F: '{print $1}' | xargs vi

verboEse · 2009-09-03 16:02:18 3
Edit all files found having a specific string found by grep

Make sure that find does not touch anything other than regular files, and handles non-standard characters in filenames while passing to xargs.
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find . -type f -exec grep -qi 'foo' {} \; -print0 | xargs -0 vim

arcege · 2009-09-03 17:55:26 7
Know when you will type :q in your term instead of vi(m), the alias will chewed you out.

For vi(m) users : Add it in your ~/.bashrc Add an "exit" @ the end if you are masochist ;) Show Sample Output
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```
this is NOT vi(m) :/
```
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alias :q='tput setaf 1; echo >&2 "this is NOT vi(m) :/"; tput sgr0'

sputnick · 2009-12-08 12:59:44 3
Remove VIM temp files
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find ./ -name '*.sw[op]' -delete

linuxrawkstar · 2010-02-26 12:56:38 5
chain search and replace special characters to html entities in gvim

a brief list of very common special characters in Dutch. Usefull for formatting Word source to html.
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%s/?/\ï/ge | %s/?/\é/ge | %s/?/"/ge | %s/?/"/ge | %s/?/'/ge | %s/?/'/ge | %s/?/\ê/ge | %s/?/\/ge | %s/?/\è/ge | %s/?/\ó/ge | %s/?/\ö/ge | %s/?/\é/ge | %s/?/\–/ge | %s/?/\—/ge

miccaman · 2010-07-15 07:40:45 4
vim insert at beginning of multiple lines
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:%s!^!foo!

miccaman · 2011-04-13 11:57:18 5
Setup Vim environment for USACO coding

1. Get name of task by task=$(basename "$(pwd)") 2. Check whether "$task.c" exists as a file 3. open "$task.c", "$task.in", "task.out" in vim with such layout. ------------------------------- | | $task.in | | | | |$task.c |-----------------| | | $task.out | | | | -------------------------------
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alias viaco='task="$(basename "$(pwd)")"; if [ -f "$task.c" ]; then vi -c "set mouse=n" -c "set autoread" -c "vsplit $task.out" -c "split $task.in" -c "wincmd l" -c "wincmd H" $task.c; fi'

yolila · 2011-05-13 13:35:02 8
Ignore ~/.vimrc when startup gVim
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gvim -u NONE -U NONE

kev · 2011-06-12 10:56:14 3
make comments invisible when editing a file

you should choose proper color to make comments invisible.
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vim -c'highlight Comment ctermfg=white' my.conf

kev · 2011-10-21 00:53:03 67
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search installed files of package, that doesn't remember his name well. On rpm systems

rpm, sometimes, is not wildcard friendly. To search files installed from package this could be useful. change PACKAGENAME to any package do you want to search

Testing php configuration

Run the function phpinfo() on the shell

Send keypresses to an X application

This is a (last resort) way to automate applications that provide no other ways for automation, it would send 'Hello world' to the currently active window. See the manpage (and the -text and -window entries) for how to send special characters and target specific windows. An example: Using xwininfo, I get the id of my XPlanet background window: alanceil@kvirasim:19:51:0:~> xwininfo xwininfo: Please select the window about which you would like information by clicking the mouse in that window. xwininfo: Window id: 0x3600001 "Xplanet 1.2.0" Absolute upper-left X: 0 (..etc..) Now I use xvkbd to tell it to close itself: xvkbd -xsendevent -window 0x3600001 -text "Q" Obviously, the best way is to put these commands in a shellscript - just make sure to include a short sleep (sleep .1 should suffice) after each xvkbd call, or some programs will become confused.

Find usb device in realtime

Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

Encrypted chat with netcat and openssl (one-liner)

client$ while true; do read -n30 ui; echo $ui |openssl enc -aes-256-ctr -a -k PaSSw ; done | nc localhost 8877 | while read so; do decoded_so=`echo "$so"| openssl enc -d -a -aes-256-ctr -k PaSSw`; echo -e "Incoming: $decoded_so"; done This will establish a simple encrypted chat with AES-256-CTR using netcat and openssl only. More info here https://nixaid.com/encrypted-chat-with-netcat/

Suspend, background, and foreground a process

1. Start a process, such as 'top' command 2. # suspend process {ctrl-Z} 3. # background process bg 4. # list all backgrounded jobs jobs 5. # bring it back to foreground fg

Convert seconds to [DD:][HH:]MM:SS

Converts any number of seconds into days, hours, minutes and seconds. sec2dhms() { declare -i SS="$1" D=$(( SS / 86400 )) H=$(( SS % 86400 / 3600 )) M=$(( SS % 3600 / 60 )) S=$(( SS % 60 )) [ "$D" -gt 0 ] && echo -n "${D}:" [ "$H" -gt 0 ] && printf "%02g:" "$H" printf "%02g:%02g\n" "$M" "$S" }

Show a prettified list of nearby wireless APs

Annotate tail -f with timestamps

List your largest installed packages.

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