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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting howto substitute word in vi command mode Post 302427971 by presul on Tuesday 8th of June 2010 12:41:33 PM
Old 06-08-2010
howto substitute word in vi command mode

Hi

I'm trying to substitute word "January" with word "March" in my script but in certain lines only.
I have couple words containing pattern that I want to substitute e.g.
- log.January.1.array
- log_January_1_array_1
- log.January.1.array
- log_January_1_array_11

Trying to do cmd below in command mode of vi but it doesn't work:

:%s/January/March/481-515

What should be correct syntax for this to happen ?

thx.
 

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EXIGREP(8)						      System Manager's Manual							EXIGREP(8)

NAME
EXIGREP - Search Exim's main log SYNOPSIS
exigrep [-l] pattern [log file] ... DESCRIPTION
The exigrep utility is a Perl script that searches one or more main log files for entries that match a given pattern. When it finds a match, it extracts all the log entries for the relevant message, not just those that match the pattern. Thus, exigrep can extract complete log entries for a given message, or all mail for a given user, or for a given host, for example. The -l flag means 'literal', that is, treat all characters in the pattern as standing for themselves. Otherwise the pattern must be a Perl regular expression. The pattern match is case-insensitive. If no file names are given on the command line, the standard input is read. If the location of a zcat command is known from the definition of ZCAT_COMMAND in Local/Makefile, exigrep automatically passes any file whose name ends in COMPRESS_SUFFIX through zcat as it searches it. BUGS
This manual page needs a major re-work. If somebody knows better groff than us and has more experience in writing manual pages, any patches would be greatly appreciated. SEE ALSO
exim(8), perlre(1), /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/ AUTHOR
This manual page was stitched together from spec.txt by Andreas Metzler <ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). March 26, 2003 EXIGREP(8)
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