UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Wat I can do for example to locate the
word "happy" in the text from the beginning
of the text?
Thanks for help.

Word and Character Searching

So /happy should do it if you're using vi.

If you just want to search the file from the prompt, look up the grep command: grep happy someFile

Don't mess around with Oombera, but still an addition

vi /tmp/file/1


From inside the file:
:1
/happy
Now you will be transferred to the first line and than to the first word "happy"

If you want to find the next just press the letter "n" If you want to search backwards press "N". If you want to search backwards already at the beginning that replace the "/" with a "?" So:
?happy
Searches the file backwards. If you want to search and replace automaticly, you do :

:1,$s/happy/sad/g

This means ":1,$" Line number 1 untill the end.
"s/happy/sad/" Replace happy with sad
"g" do it multiple times per line (if needed)

If you want to replace happy manualy do it the following :

/happy
cwsad<esc> # This is ChangeWord sad
n # for next word
. # This repeats the last action what was a "cwsad" You don't need to press <esc> anymore

That's all I can think of


Regs David

very thanks to davidg and also oombera