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VI question

Hunki — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 11:38:09 GMT

Hi All,

I have this piece of text in which I need to move the text to one space ahead.
Here is the text :
12233
324234
12321342
and I want to make it look like :
12233
324234
12321342

How do I do it through vi , there is a lot of text to be done.Doing individual lines wud be a pain.

Thanks to a the nice samaritans.

Hunki

Re: VI question

Patrick Wallek — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 11:44:00 GMT

Considering that the Forums screw up the formatting, you post doesn't really show any difference.

Is it that you just want to add a space at the beginning of the line? If so, do the following in vi:

:1,$s/^/ /g

Note that you must NOT be in insert/edit mode to do this. Hit ESC a couple of times first to make sure. Also not that there is a space between the last 2 / characters.

Re: VI question

Patrice Le Guyader — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 11:46:11 GMT

Hi,

Try this :
:1,$ s/^ //g
Note there is a space betwwen ^and //

Hope this helps
Kenavo
Pat

Re: VI question

James R. Ferguson — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 11:48:54 GMT

Hi:

I assume that you mean move up one line (row)? If so:

3dd

P

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: VI question

Hunki — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 12:07:54 GMT

Thanks All