G'day,
I think you'll need the grep command here
Check this link out
http://lowfatlinux.com/lin
Cheers,
Arthur
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Browse All TopicsHi guys hope you can help me :>)
I have a question on using VI Editor.
I often want to do search and replacements in a text file, and use VI to do this.
For example,
:1,$s/MindMaps/Algorithms
What the above does is to find all instances of MindMaps, and replace it with Algorithms.
What Im having trouble with is the following...
:1,$s/MindMaps/Algorithms/
In the above, I want to replace the word
MindMaps
with
Algorithms/002/text
What I get is an error in VI Editor saying "Trailing characters"
Q. How do I do a replacement in Vi with forward slashes included in the replacement?
Thank you.
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G'day,
I think you'll need the grep command here
Check this link out
http://lowfatlinux.com/lin
Cheers,
Arthur
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by: ozoPosted on 2007-11-18 at 20:23:49ID: 20310246
1,$s#MindMaps#Algorithms/0 02/text