1 byte more?
Dan Nelson
dnelson at allantgroup.com
Wed Jul 20 04:51:22 GMT 2005
In the last episode (Jul 20), Xu Qiang said:
> In FreeBSD 5.3, I want to create a new txt file with vi, and type a
> single digit into it, and save it for future use.
>
> My steps are:
> 1 vi count.txt
> 2 type i (for insert mode)
> 3 type 0
> 4 Esc
> 5 :wq
>
> Then by "ls -l", I found the file's size is 2 bytes, intead of 1 byte
> as I expected.
vi probably put a newline character after the one you typed. You can
use
echo -n 0 > count.txt
or a text editor that doesn't force a newline as the last character in
a file (joe for example).
--
Dan Nelson
dnelson at allantgroup.com
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