If you need to create a list of IP addresses in VIM (for a /24 mask), you can use the following keystrokes. You could obviously use excel or something else, but this is useful when working on a text based environment, like a console, and you need some lists to play with, perhaps for a script.
Syntax:
1. Create the first list entry, make sure it starts with a number. 2. qa - start recording into register 'a' 3. Y - yank the entry (capital ‘Y’) 4. p - put a copy of the entry below the first one 5. CTRL-A - increment the number 6. q - stop recording 7. <count>@a - repeat the yank, put and increment <count> times |
Example:
1. Create the first list entry, make sure it starts with a number. 2. qa - start recording into register 'a' 3. Y - yank the entry (capital ‘Y’) 4. p - put a copy of the entry below the first one 5. CTRL-A - increment the number 6. q - stop recording 7. 253@a - repeat the yank 253 times – remember, 1 and 2 should already be there 8. :1,255s/^/10.1.1./g – This will insert “10.1.1.” at the start of all lines from line 1 to line 255, globally |
Note: This only works in ‘vim’, not ‘vi’. ‘vi’ does not have support for macros/recording.
It’s ‘hacky’…but it works.
Enjoy.
Please,use the nano text editor
May I ask ‘Why ?’ ?