Source: http:\/\/www.ale.org\/archive\/ale\/ale-2005-05\/msg00214.html<\/p>\n
For the whole file try:<\/p>\n
Goto to line one: 1G<\/em> Sort a range: Now what does the special chars above mean.<\/p>\n ‘!’ is the vi filter command, it is followed by a movement command G by itself means go to the end of the file<\/p>\n ma means set mark a to this line. (marks a-z exist)<\/p>\n ‘a means goto mark a.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: http:\/\/www.ale.org\/archive\/ale\/ale-2005-05\/msg00214.html For the whole file try: Goto to line one: 1G Sort from current line to end of file: !Gsort Or if you want to think of it as one command: 1G!Gsort Sort a range: Move Cursor to last line to sort mark the line with mark ‘a’: ma move cursor to first line [&hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documentation"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jim-zimmerman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n Sort from current line to end of file: !Gsort<\/em>
\n Or if you want to think of it as one command: 1G!Gsort<\/em>
\n Move Cursor to last line to sort
\n mark the line with mark ‘a’: ma<\/em>
\n move cursor to first line to sort
\n sort from current line to mark ‘a’: !’asort<\/em>
\nthat says what is being filtered. That is followed by the actual
\nfilter cmd. The filter cmd can be any executable. In this case sort.
\n Since vi does not know how long the filter command name is, you have
\nto hit carriage return to initiate the filter.<\/p>\n