There are so many commands we use while working with vi editors. Here I have shared some commands.
i – for insert mode.
I – inserts text at the curson
A – appends text at the end of the line.
a – appends text after cursor.
O – open a new line of text above the curson.
o – open a new line of text below the curson.
: – for command mode.
<escape> – to invoke command mode from insert mode.
:!sh – to run unix commands.
x – to delete a single character.
dd – to delete an entire line
ndd – to delete n number of lines.
d$ – to delete from cursor to end of line.
yy – to copy a line to buffer.
P – to paste text from buffer.
nyy – copy n number of lines to buffer.
:%s/stringA/stringb /g – to replace stringA with stringB in whole file.
G – to go to last line in file.
1G – to go to the first line in file.
w – to move forward to next word.
b – to move backwards to next word.
$ – to move to the end of line.
J – join a line with the one below it.
/ – string to search string in file.
n – to search for next occurrence of string.
