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 _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
