Tuesday 28 April 2015

Tips & Tricks



VI editor shows the error terminal too wide 

Connected to solaris server through putty and try to edit a file with vi editor. Following error display.

(user:current)% vi Makefile64.backup  Terminal too wide

Resolution

Increase the number of columns using stty command . This command used to manage the characteristics of the terminal.

stty columns 100 
 stty --version,  stty -a or --all,  stty -g, stty --help 










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