Linux Recipes for Oracle DBAs

Chapter 4. Creating and Editing Files

If you want to survive in a Linux environment, then you must be adept with at least one command-line text editor. DBAs use text editors on a daily basis to manipulate database initialization files, create scripts to automate tasks, modify operating system scheduler jobs, and so on. In a Linux shop, you won't be able to do a good job as a database administrator unless you're proficient with a text editor.

Dozens of text editors are available. To that end, there have been entire books written on text editors available in Linux/Unix environments. The three most common command-line text editors in use are vi, Vim, and emacs. This chapter focuses on the vi text editor (pronounced "vee-eye" or sometimes "vie"). We ...