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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers vi substitution help Post 302614547 by gary_w on Wednesday 28th of March 2012 03:06:03 PM
Old 03-28-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by Peasant
Or even shorter and less understandable Smilie
Code:
:%s#'\|-\|' ##g

In my version of vi I get "substitute pattern match failed" :-(
 

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SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

       Reads  a  portable  pixmap  as  input.  Produces a portable graymap as output.  The output is a "black and white" rendering of the original
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