OT: vi exit status
Bill Campbell
bill at celestial.com
Sun Jun 17 11:23:42 PDT 2007
On Sun, Jun 17, 2007, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:
>I'd be much appreciative if some one could conduct a small
>experiment on BSD, and someone else on AIX:
>
>Enter 'vi' (NOT 'vim') with any file at all as its target.
>
>Do:
> :s/lkj32d/f/
> :/AoPoToRoWo/d
> :1t5000
>
>The odds are in my favor that all three commands fail.
>If not, commit some other mistakes.
>
>Then quit 'vi'.
>What is its exit status?
FreeBSD 4.8, /usr/bin/vi returns ``0''.
Bill
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