Last Updated: February 25, 2016
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· markm

Open vi/vim on a specific line number

#vim
#cli
#text
#vi

To open 'my.file' on line 10, put a '+10' on the CLI.

mark@home:~$ vi my.file +10
#vim
#cli
#text
#vi

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