Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 23:51:21 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Xu Qiang <Qiang.Xu@fujixerox.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 1 byte more? Message-ID: <20050720045121.GB94371@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20050720044345.04C111D969@imss.sgp.fujixerox.com> References: <20050720044345.04C111D969@imss.sgp.fujixerox.com>
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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@allantgroup.com
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