searhing multiple words in vi

[Shivkumar]

Hi,

Is there a command to search in vi words
which starts with a paricular word and ends with another particular word ?

I know the command which searches only one word in vi.

Thanks,
Shiv

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

Shalom Shiv,

Shlash to start the search function.

"Search vi"

Enclose the search parameter in double quotes.

This stops the tool from interpreting the space as end of search parameter.

SEP

[Jonathan Fife]

You can do text matching for any phrase (within a single line) that starts with word1 and ends with word2 like so:

:/word1.*word2

The . signifies any character and the * means zero or more of the character just specified, so together they means zero or more of any character.

[Arunvijai_4]

Hi Shiv,

vi cheat sheet which contains many tips and tricks : http://www.lagmonster.org/docs/vi.html

-Arun