The vi text editor - basic intro - Linux Command Line tutorial for forensics

Linux Command Line tutorial for forensics - 04 - the vi text editor - basic intro


This course was designed to provide information on how to use the command line environment in a Unix/Linux system to accomplish tasks such as imaging, data acquisition, and archiving. This course covers the basics of Unix/Linux commands that allow users to view and edit text files, obtain hardware and system information, partitioning and formatting, process related commands, manipulating disks and partitions, imaging, archiving, logical acquisition, live system response, and basic networking.

This would be beneficial for folks who are interested in digital forensics, incidence response, system administration, ethical hacking, or just plain linux. This course covers material for beginners as well as for advanced users. This course would also be helpful if you are considering taking the CompTIA Linux+ certification test.

Video timeline
00:00 Intro
00:50 vi modes
01:35 file control
02:40 moving around the file in normal mode
05:00 command mode
05:33 insert mode
08:37 copy and paste (yanking and putting)
09:13 finding text (search)
10:50 find and replace (search and substitute)
16:00 vi settings in command mode
20:12 Bonus material
22:41 Recap

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If you are interested in getting more in depth, here’s a book from O’Reilly

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[oldpain]

By far the best video I've seen on learning VI/VIM. Simple and powerful. Thank you!

[tyjohnston]

Man...your videos are awesome 👌. I've been SQL, SQLite ect learning for a few months and decided I'd dive into learning Linux. It's almost overwhelming at first but your videos are very thorough and extremely helpful. Thank you!

[hichambch]

this is really the best video for a beginner to watch, thanks alot man

[Eddie-uhtl]

Really great content! thanks for the really made it very easy to comprehend, being pretty new to this subject you explained it in a manner easy to digest for beginners. ☺👏

[DJ-lpbh]

This is amazing!

I’m on my 3rd attempt to learn Linux and this makes so much sense to me.

Thank you.

[abdallahyasser]

Great content, Thank you for your efforts!

[hashimsulaiman]

I found it so helpful you explained so well

[ThanhNguyen-iost]

Awesome video, command mode :set paste will paste from your desktop environment’s clipboard.

For example, copy some text from a web page using a web browser. In vi/m, use set paste in Command mode will allow u to paste what u copied from webpage into Vi/m.

[obadiahcheruiyot]

thanks a lot, the video is really great

[shaneschwalger]

I am listening to this tutorial on my headphone, while in class learning about VI

[chessbd]

Thanks for the tutorial! Admire your effort !!! love from Bangladesh.

[GNU_Linux_for_good]

01:16 So - we're actually talking about *vim* . vi is the old Unix editor from the 60ies & 70ies. _[I won't tell Bram..]_

[marcos-blny]

Looks nice. Which theme are you using?

[IndronilBanerjee]

You're teaching vim, not vi and linux doesn't come with vi but elvis that's a vi clone.