Re: vi globally append question
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 07:45:26PM +0200, Matthias Czapla wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 11:05:32AM -0400, David Turetsky wrote:
> > > i have a file like;
> > >
> > > #
> > > one
> > > 123
> > >
> > > 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.
>
> :1,$s/^\([^#].*\)/#\1/
>
> should do it in vi.
Nope. Doesn't meet the spec. He wanted *every* line that did not start
with '#', which would include blank lines. Your solution omits blank
lines. Of course he might have mis-stated the specs.
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