RE: control character in init.ora

It's not vi, but this should give you the number of any lines which contain control characters:

        grep -n "[:cntrl:]" bin/ksh_doskey | cut -d: -f 1

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Linda Wang [mailto:lwang_at_messagemedia.com]
> Sent: 10 July, 2000 11:27 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: control character in init.ora
>
>
> When I used vi to edit init.ora, I acciedently saved control character
> in it. What is the vi command to find is there a control
> character in
> the file right after the editing?
>
>
> Thanks.
> Linda
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> Author: Linda Wang
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Received on Mon Jul 10 2000 - 13:34:07 CDT