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Old 01-20-2010
Annoying in VI editor
Dear all,

I try to search " ( double quote ) in a file using vi editor,
I gave in the command mode

/"

it supposed to take to me to all the occurnces of " instead in some places it is taking me to different character.!
It happens with some other characters in that file....

can you please advice?

Thanks,
Shahnaz.
# 2  
Old 01-20-2010
Use n for next occurrence and N for previous occurrence of term which you searched.
# 3  
Old 01-20-2010
I searched using same.
it is workig in a simple file, no idea why it is not working in this file.
# 4  
Old 01-20-2010
i tried it and it worked, but try this:
Code:
/\"

# 5  
Old 01-20-2010
It didn't work, it give same result when I searched using /" and I don't see any difference in /\" and /"

and also I tried to replace " (double quote ) with space

sed 's/"/ /g' filename > newfile

I believe both the file size should be same but in my case newfile has less length...
Can you please let me know any thing needs to be changed ?
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Old 01-20-2010
Quote:
it supposed to take to me to all the occurnces of " instead in some places it is taking me to different character.!
It happens with some other characters in that file....
i can't reproduce this problem.
what "other characters"?
can you specify this a little?
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