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Pablo

pablo's using vi

i've a document that need to be ammed and replace every instance of a string with another string


[PHP]/home/pablo/www/beta.1/

with

/usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/pablo.com/httpdocs/

[/php]

this doesn't work in vi
/ "/home/pablo/www/beta.1/" / "/usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/pablo.com/httpdocs/"


any ideas why ?

Pablo

*bump

does anyone use vi

here is the code again on one line

:s / "/home/pablo/www/beta.1/" / "/usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/pablo.com/httpdocs/"

Pablo

[php]:%s /\/home\/pablo\/www\/beta.1\/ / \/usr\/local\/psa\/home\/vhosts\/pablo.com\/httpdocs//g[/php]

Gerry

I think what you want is :

1,$s/\/home\/pablo\/www\/beta.1\/  /\/usr\/local\/psa\/home\/vhosts\/pablo.com\/httpdocs\//g

(The space in the middle shouldn't be there, but I can't get rid of it)
The 1,$ tells vi what line numbers to start and finish on, and you have to backslash the url forward slashes to tell vi that they are not delimiters and should be ignored.

Pablo

thanks gerry
i got it eventually , i used

:%s/\/home\/pablo\/www\/beta.1\// \/usr\/local\/psa\/home\/vhosts\/pablo.com\/httpdocs\//g
the % does it for the whole file /

merci buckets

there is a problem the way that the \/ are done with the [code] tag

flamegrill

Actually i beg to differ, the "g" at the end is what does it for the whole file. its a regex standard from perl aswell and it means globally funnily enough.

Regards,

Paul

Gerry

g means global to the line, as in every occurence on a line. Otherwise it would only pick up the first one. I have to use this in work every day, and it won't process more than the current line till I give it the line numbers first.

man vi there paul

flamegrill

I was talking purely from a Perl syntax there Phil


Regards,

Paul

(VIM OWNS YOREMA)