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CentOS System Administration Essentials

You're reading from   CentOS System Administration Essentials Become an efficient CentOS administrator by acquiring real-world knowledge of system setup and configuration

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783985920
Length 174 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Andrew Mallett Andrew Mallett
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Taming vi 2. Cold Starts FREE CHAPTER 3. CentOS Filesystems – A Deeper Look 4. YUM – Software Never Looked So Good 5. Herding Cats – Taking Control of Processes 6. Users – Do We Really Want Them? 7. LDAP – A Better Type of User 8. Nginx – Deploying a Performance-centric Web Server 9. Puppet – Now You Are the Puppet Master 10. Security Central 11. Graduation Day Index

Chapter 1. Taming vi

You may have some experience with vi, or what is now known as Vim (which is when simply put—vi improved). All too often, I find that those first experiences have never been good ones or to be looked back upon with much fondness. Guiding you through the initially unfathomable regime of vi, we are going to make sure that you are the master of vi and you leave wanting to use this tool from the gods. vi is like everything else in the sense that you just need to stick with it in the early days and keep practicing. Remember how you persevered for many hours riding your bicycle as a toddler and became a master, despite a few bruised knees? I want you to persevere with vi too. We will start with a little command-line magic to make the whole command-line interface (CLI) experience a better one. We will then be ready to start our black-belt experience in vi.

In this chapter, we will go through the following topics:

  • CLI trickery – shortcuts that you will love
  • Vim and vi: In this section, you will learn to differentiate between these twins and meet their graphical cousin
  • Getting the .vimrc setup the way you like
  • Search and replace: In this section, you will learn how to quickly find and replace text within files from both inside and outside Vim
  • Learning to remove extraneous comments from a file with a few deft key strokes
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