[Ilugc] Vim to edit binary file
- From: steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx (steve)
- Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 15:21:03 +0530
On Sunday 12 May 2013 02:21 PM, Balasubramaniam Natarajan wrote:
Hi
I found on the net that this is the command I need to be in to edit a
binary file after converting to hex.
:%!xxd
I am confused as to why we use the *%* sign. I know that if we need to run
shell command we can press ESC + colon + exclamation + <shell command>.
% implies the contents of the file you are editing, for example:
:%sort
will sort all the lines of the file alphabetically
:%s/this/that/g
will substitute all the occurrences of 'this' with 'that' in the file you are
editing and ...
:!wc -l %
with execute the command "wc -l" (echo the number of lines) passing the current
file as an argument.
cheers,
- steve
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