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Re: vi globally append question



On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 06:49:20 PDT, Sean writes:
>and i would like to APPEND a # at the beginning of
>each line which is not started with a # . how can i do
>it with vi or ed, so far, i 've tried;
>
>:%s/^[a-z]:[0-9]/#/g
>
>but this would CHANGE the first character of each line
>to a hash, pls help.

:%s/^/\#/g , although that obviously doesn't care if the first
 character already is a # sign. You'd probably need backrefernces
 for that, which I know nothing about.

cheers,
&rw
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