Shell Programming and Scripting

I was wondering if it is possible to execute a script that will remove a certain search pattern from a file and save it?

Manually I would just hit escape to enter command mode then search and delete the pattern "./srv 135.0.0.1.11111 210;=1" then save & exit the file

vi command to search and delete indicated pattern:
:%s!"./srv 135.0.0.1.11111 210;=1"!!g


I dont have a clue how to do this using a script. Any ideas?

Not sure I understand your problem. From the command line, you can use sed:

Code:

sed 's!"./srv 135.0.0.1.11111 210;=1"!!g' file1 > file2

Any vi command that starts with a : is really an ex command. Any time the shell and vi command sequence:

Code:

vi file
:ex command...
:w
:q

will make the changes you want to make to file, you can put it into a script as:

Code:

ex file <<"EOF"
ex command...
w
q
EOF

so in this case:

Code:

ex file <<"EOF"
%s!"./srv 135.0.0.1.11111 210;=1"!!g
w
q
EOF

should do what you want.

Thanks Don! That worked perfectly!