topic Re: vi editor in Operating System - Linux

vi editor

Francesco_13 — Fri, 05 Mar 2004 04:18:01 GMT

Hi,
i try to substitute disk01 with disk02 for all occurence in my file
command :% s/disk01/disk02/g

It's this command ok?

the vi return me:

unknow command character ' '

Thank!!

Re: vi editor

Steve Steel — Fri, 05 Mar 2004 04:21:08 GMT

Hi

Try

:1,$ s/disk01/disk02/g

Steve Steel

Re: vi editor

G. Vrijhoeven — Fri, 05 Mar 2004 04:21:53 GMT

Hi,

There are several possibles. mine is:

:g/disk01/s//disk02/g

the g stands for global so multiple times on all lines.

HTH,

Gideon

Re: vi editor

Thierry Poels_1 — Fri, 05 Mar 2004 04:22:13 GMT

hi,

the command is OK, but DON'T leave a blank between the "%" and the "s".

good luck,
Thierry.

Re: vi editor

Sanjay Kumar Suri — Fri, 05 Mar 2004 04:22:28 GMT

: s/disk01/disk02/gc

sks

Re: vi editor

MarkSyder — Fri, 05 Mar 2004 04:23:04 GMT

I think you've confused vi with sed.

I'm no sed expert, so I'm not sure of the syntax. I think this would be a long-winded change using vi. Have a look at the sed man page for the appropriate syntax.

Mark Syder (like the drink but spelt different)

Re: vi editor

Steve Steel — Fri, 05 Mar 2004 04:23:09 GMT

Hi

http://chris.tobkin.com/~tobkin/vi/

Is good

Steve Steel

Re: vi editor

G. Vrijhoeven — Fri, 05 Mar 2004 04:26:48 GMT

Mark,

sed sollution:

cat file | sed 's/disk01/disk02/g'>>file2
mv file2 file

Regards,

Gideon

Re: vi editor

Sanjay Kumar Suri — Fri, 05 Mar 2004 04:28:06 GMT

Mistake in this

: s/disk01/disk02/gc

Instead use

:1,$ s/disk01/disk02/gc

sks

Re: vi editor

MarkSyder — Fri, 05 Mar 2004 04:34:34 GMT

Thanks Gideon.

Sorry, I can't give you any points - it's not my thread!

Mark

Re: vi editor

Sanjiv Sharma_1 — Fri, 05 Mar 2004 04:40:55 GMT

Hi,

I prefer
:1,$ s/disk01/disk02/g

Re: vi editor

Francesco_13 — Fri, 05 Mar 2004 04:50:04 GMT

Thanks for all..

Re: vi editor

Jakes Louw — Fri, 05 Mar 2004 04:51:42 GMT

:%s/disk01/disk02/g

easy as that, so as somebody said, the space you left between % and s is wrong.

Re: vi editor

Francesco_13 — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 05:48:16 GMT

thanks