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Homework and Emergencies Homework & Coursework Questions VI Search and Replace problem help... Post 302547561 by cokedude on Tuesday 16th of August 2011 04:39:45 AM
Old 08-16-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by kbreitsprecher
If i am not mistaken the % sign will make vi search every line in the file.

I have tried this, and it works, (I found another example in a page somewhere) but can someone break it down for me? I don't follow the first part of it.
:g/^\(DOS\|WINDOWS\)/s/\(DOS\|WINDOWS\)/UNIX/g
:g/\(DOS\|WINDOWS\)$/s/\(DOS\|WINDOWS\)/UNIX/g

I don't understand the :g at the beginning or why the s is after the line beginning with section....

Thanks
Check this out. The :g just means global.

Vi Cheat Sheet

I broke this up into separate cases and have a simpler solution to do this all at once. I figured it out after studying your ideas Smilie.

Code:
:%s/\(^DOS\|DOS$\|^WINDOWS\|WINDOWS$\)/UNIX/g

---------- Post updated at 04:39 AM ---------- Previous update was at 04:16 AM ----------

I read what you said closer and fixed it. Since you have so many requirements you gotta break them up into separate cases.

Code:
:%s/\(^DOS\|DOS$\|DOS\|^WINDOWS\|WINDOWS$\|WINDOWS\)/UNIX/g

 

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Name
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