Re: VIM

[Hugues Obolonsky <hugh@ocare.com>]

Charl Matthee wrote:
> 
> On Tue Sep 18 2001 at 10:38:57AM +0200 'Craig' <craigsc@zdata.co.za> wrote:
> 
> > Need to do an extended find and replace with VIM, anyone
> > know the syntax for me ? I have a really long named.conf
> > file I need to modify ...
> 
> :%s/thing_to_find/thing_to_replace/gc
> 
> g: global
> c: check with operator before substituting
> 
> If you need to find and replace over multiple lines I suggest you rather
> use a little perl script.

maybe if you want to script, you can use the -s option of vim

cat < EOF > cmd.file
:1,$s/thing_to_find/thing_to_replace/
:wq
EOF

vim -s cmd.file named.conf

regards
hugh

> 
> Ciao
> 
> Charl
> __________________________________________________________________________
> 
>                Making reality real since 1974.
> __________________________________________________________________________
> 
>       [ Charl Matthee ]                             [ +27-11-721-3800 ]
>       [ Reality Manufacturing ]                     [ +27-11-405-6508 ]
> __________________________________________________________________________
> 
> --
> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-isp-request@lists.debian.org
> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org