topic Re: repeat paste command in vi in Operating System - HP-UX

repeat paste command in vi

Rob CUYNEN — Thu, 21 Jun 2001 06:03:07 GMT

I have a line in a text-file that I want repeated 15 times.
So i used:
yy
15p

Didn't work only a single line was pasted.

yy
p
14.

Also didn't work, just repeats one time.

Is there anyway to do this, other than 15 times pressing p.

PS: both of the above commands work in winvi, please don't let windows beat us.

Re: repeat paste command in vi

Paula J Frazer-Campbell — Thu, 21 Jun 2001 06:15:04 GMT

Hi Rob

I cannot find this, meanwhile a vi doc attached.

Paula

Re: repeat paste command in vi

Rob CUYNEN — Thu, 21 Jun 2001 07:45:30 GMT

To repeat line "n" times, either yy yank and then use p "n" number of times, or mark the line as `a' and :1,ng/^/'aco'a will duplicate "n" copies of that line; e.g., :1,34g/^/'aco'a will add 34 more copies of line marked `a' ; "n" must be no greater than the number of lines in the file.

Source: http://www.jeffw.com/vi/#COPY_TEXT

Re: repeat paste command in vi

Bill McNAMARA_1 — Thu, 21 Jun 2001 09:36:45 GMT

Use the period
ie .
to repeat the last vi command mode command.

Later,
Bill