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Originally Posted by andyblaylock
Thankyou for your response.
Im presuming that I would need to be in vi to run the search command? |
why are you presuming that?
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Originally Posted by andyblaylock
Or can I run this from my regular user prompt?
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yes
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Originally Posted by andyblaylock
I have lots of files in one directory so to run vi I would need to consolidate all these files into one big file and run vi on the one consolidated file and complete the search??
Andy |
I don't understand what '
vi' has to do what you're trying to do...
Copy a sample set of files to a 'sand-box' directory and execute the script on this directory ONLY. Once satisfied with the result - proceed to the 'real' thing.
