Re: vi globally append question

[Rick Pasotto <rick@niof.net>]

On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 10:05:43PM -0500, Patrick Albuquerque wrote:
> From: Sean <hesselroad@yahoo.com> Date: Thursday, July 15, 2004 8:49
> am Subject: vi globally append question
> 
> > hi all,
> > 
> > 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;
> 
> This is neatest, I think
> 
> :g!/^#/ s/^/#/

Well......

That may be neat but I doubt it will work in vi. It may very well work
in vim or elvis or some other enhanced clone of vi but that's not quite
the same thing.

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