Or Control-Q in gVim on Windows. (":help visual-start" for full details.) William Robertson On 17 Mar 2013, at 11:24, Tanel Poder <tanel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Use vim and hit *CTRL+V*. Enjoy :-) -- *Tanel Poder* Enkitec (The Exadata Experts) Training <http://blog.tanelpoder.com/seminar/> | Troubleshooting<http://blog.tanelpoder.com/> | Exadata<http://www.amazon.com/Expert-Oracle-Exadata-Apress/dp/1430233923> | Voicee App <http://voic.ee/> On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Nuno Souto <dbvision@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > cut would be my first choice too. > > cut -c1-40 {fname} > {newfnam} > will cut the first 40 columns of all lines of fname and drop the result > in newfname (omit the {}). > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l