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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Commang to search two strings in vi Post 302373422 by TonyLawrence on Friday 20th of November 2009 07:55:28 AM
Old 11-20-2009
If your vi doesn't support that, either "grep" or "egrep" will. I don't know if that helps you (you said you needed this in vi) but I'll mention it just in case.

Way back when you needed "egrep"

Code:
egrep "one|two" file
# No "\" needed

Today, most grep's support that directly, but if yours does not, use "egrep"

Clumsily, within vi you could

Code:
:!nl yourfile | egrep "String1|String2"

and then move to the line numbers displayed.
 

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sagasu(1)																 sagasu(1)

NAME
sagasu - GNOME tool to find strings in multiple files SYNOPSIS
sagasu [string [dir]] DESCRIPTION
sagasu is a GNOME tool to find strings in a set of files. The user specifies the search directory and the set of files to be searched. Double-clicking on a search result launches a user command that can for example load the file in an editor at the appropriate line. The search can recurse into subdirectories and can optionally ignore CVS directories. Two optional command-line arguments can be given: the first is the initial search string and the second is the directory whose files will be searched. If only one argument is given, it is taken as the search string. No search is actually started, but the appropriate fields are initialized. Any subsequent arguments are ignored. More documentation is available through the application's Help menu. OPTIONS
--help display a help page and exit --version display version information and exit LICENSE
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License. This program has absolutely no warranty. AUTHOR
Pierre Sarrazin See the Sagasu Home Page: http://sarrazip.com/dev/sagasu.html BUGS
The files to be searches are still assumed to be in Latin-1, not in UTF-8. The same goes for the command-line arguments and the terminal to which Sagasu is connected, if applicable. HISTORY
Sagasu is a Japanese word that means "to search." June 19th, 2010 sagasu(1)
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