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Oracle SQL*Plus: The Definitive Guide
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Oracle SQL*Plus: The Definitive Guide

by Jonathan Gennick
March 1999
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
528 pages
14h 39m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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EDIT

The EDIT command allows you to invoke an external editor to edit the contents of the buffer, or to edit the contents of an operating system file:

ED[IT] [filename]

where:

ED[IT]

Is the command, which may be abbreviated to ED. The EDIT command with no parameters allows you to edit the current contents of the buffer.

filename

Specifies an external file to edit instead of the buffer. The filename may include a path and an extension.

EDIT, and all the other editing commands, are described in Chapter 2.

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