Tips and Tricks

Tips and Tricks

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‘vi’ and 'vim' text editors

Notes:

  • When typing text, press <ESC> once finished. In case you’re blocked, press also <ESC> before executing commands described below

  • both editors use case sensitive commands

Request

Command

To quit without saving

Press ‘:’ then enter ‘q!’

To quit with saving

Press ‘:’ then enter ‘x’ or ‘wq’

Go to  top of file

Press ‘:’ then enter ‘0’

Go to last line

Press ‘G’

Search pattern

Press ‘/’ then enter your search text. Press then ‘n’ for next (forward) or ‘N’ for backward

Remove current character

Press ‘x’

Insert text

Press ‘i’ (press ESC once text completed)

Insert line

Press ‘o’ for a line below cursor, ‘O’ for a line above cursor (press ESC once text completed)

Delete a line

Press ‘dd’

 

‘gedit’ graphical editor

‘gedit’ is a graphical text editor, users familiar with Windows notepad should not encounter difficulties to use it.

Request

Command

To quit

close the window by clicking on the cross top right corner

Save file

Press <CTRL-S>

‘nano’ text editor

‘nano’ is a basic text editor, very simple to use and displaying available commands at the bottom of the screen. For example, to leave ‘nano’ , use ^X (press CTRL + X)

How to setup ‘ssh’ trusts between Linux and Tru64

Please note:

  • The prompts will tell you where to execute the commands, "Tru64#" (root user) or "Linux#"  (root user)

  • Remember Linux/Unix is case sensitive

  • If hosts are not known by each other, fill the /etc/hosts file for example (using vi for example)

  • linuxhost represents the name of your CHARON server (can be any name you want)

  • tru64host represents the hostname of your Tru64 virtual machine

 

  • Generate the key

Linux# cd /root/.ssh
Linux# ssh-keygen -t rsa

→ Do not specify a passphrase
Linux# ssh-keygen -e -f id_rsa.pub > linuxhost.pub

 

  • Copy the linuxhost.pub file, or use copy/paste, in the /.ssh2 folder on the Tru64 host

  • Define the authorization file:

Tru64# cd /.ssh2
Tru64# echo "Key linuxhost.pub" >> authorization

 

  • Initialize the first ssh connection (answer 'yes' to confirm)

Linux# ssh tru64host date



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