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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting substitution in VI editor Post 302297875 by pludi on Monday 16th of March 2009 03:58:54 AM
Old 03-16-2009
Thread subject:
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Originally Posted by bhaskar_m
substitution in VI editor
Quote:
Originally Posted by bhaskar_m
[...](not in command promt in VI editor)[...]
Which one should it be? To do it in VI(m) (as your subject suggests) it would be
Code:
:%s/\(file.\.zip$\)/\/\1/

To do it without VI(m) (as the body of your message suggests), use Yogesh' suggestion, with 2 corrections:
  • There's usually no need to escape an underscore
  • Backrefs (\1, \2) are better written as $1, $2
 

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lessecho

LESSECHO(1)						      General Commands Manual						       LESSECHO(1)

NAME

       lessecho - expand metacharacters

SYNOPSIS

       lessecho [-ox] [-cx] [-pn] [-dn] [-mx] [-nn] [-ex] [-a] file ...

DESCRIPTION

       lessecho is a program that simply echos its arguments on standard output.  But any argument containing spaces is enclosed in quotes.

OPTIONS

       A summary of options is included below.

       -ox    Specifies "x" to be the open quote character.

       -cx    Specifies "x" to be the close quote character.

       -pn    Specifies "n" to be the open quote character, as an integer.

       -dn    Specifies "n" to be the close quote character, as an integer.

       -mx    Specifies "x" to be a metachar.

       -nn    Specifies "n" to be a metachar, as an integer.

       -ex    Specifies "x" to be the escape char for metachars.

       -fn    Specifies "n" to be the escape char for metachars, as an integer.

       -a     Specifies that all arguments are to be quoted.  The default is that only arguments containing spaces are quoted.

SEE ALSO

       less(1)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Thomas Schoepf <schoepf@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

       Send bug reports or comments to bug-less@gnu.org.

							     Version 444: 09 Jun 2011						       LESSECHO(1)
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