It does not seem to be possible to use vi to search from text from line n forward or backward or is there a not well known vi trick to do that?
What I am trying to do is for example I am on line 100 and I want to search from line 100 backward or forward for a specific text. Using / and ? seems to either start from the top and from the bottom and not from which line you are currently in.
Can anyone advise if what I am wanting to do is possible or not?
Thanks in advance.
The / and ? search commands in vi search forward and backward, respectively from the current line unless you specify a different range to be searched. The commands:
will search forward and backward, respectively, for the regular expression RE searching from line number line, and the commands:
search forward and backward, respectively, for the cntth occurrence of the regular expression RE searching from the current line.
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**
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- shsk
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begins with a number
followed by a hypen
follwed multiple words
and end with a dot "."
and pront the entire line which matches the above.
Please note that there is a space at the begining of each line
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