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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Escape character in vi? Post 89911 by stevefox on Wednesday 16th of November 2005 09:09:10 PM
Old 11-16-2005
Question Escape character in vi?

I want to replace a string which contains "/" in vi but what is the escape character for forward slash?

e.g. I have a text file with the contents below and I want to replace "/Top/Sub/Sub1" with "ABC".

/Top/Sub/Sub1


The replace command I am using is %s/string_before_replace/string_after_replace/g.
 

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