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Old 11-26-2008
preethgideon preethgideon is offline
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Replace in VI
Hi All,
How to add a '*' at the begining of VI file between lines in a range say 20 -30??

Please help.

I tried :%s/20,30/^/\*/

Did not work.

Thanks and Regards,
Gideon.