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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Replace, insert n times a specific character Post 302351454 by peterro on Tuesday 8th of September 2009 02:56:41 PM
Old 09-08-2009
Well, the best I've come up with is to:

Code:
:map v iX^[

where X is the character you want as the replacement. Now search for the character you want to replace and when you find it, press 'x' to remove that character and then type:

Code:
100v

This will insert 100 of the replacement characters. Hit 'n' to go to the next character to be replaced.

It's not really an ideal solution but it sort of gives you what you're looking for. I was unable to get a search '/' or character replacement 's' to work as a map to be performed multiple times. Maybe someone else has a better solution.
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

gucharmap

gnome-character-map(1)						   User Commands					    gnome-character-map(1)

NAME

       gnome-character-map, gucharmap - insert special characters into a document

SYNOPSIS

       gnome-character-map [--font=string]

DESCRIPTION

       The  Character Map application enables you to select characters from a character table, then combine the characters into a text string with
       standard characters. You can insert the text string that you create into other applications, such as text editor documents.

       Character Map provides accented characters, mathematical symbols, special symbols, and punctuation marks. Many of the  characters  are  not
       available on a standard keyboard.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       --font=string   Specify	the font name and point size that you want to use to display the characters in the character table, when you start
		       Character Map.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Launching Character Map

       example% gnome-character-map

       Example 2: Launching Character Map With Specified Font Name and Point Size

       example% gnome-character-map --font="bitstream vera sans italic 20"

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	Application exited successfully

       >0	Application exited with failure

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/gnome-character-map    Executable for Character Map.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-character-map	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |External			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       Character Map Manual

       Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform.

NOTES

       Written by Glynn Foster, Sun Microsystems  Inc., 2003.

SunOS 5.10							    20 Jan 2004 					    gnome-character-map(1)
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