Its everybodies friend: Vi

[bigdaddy01]

Hi guys,

I am trying to make a shell script in vi, there is loads of lines and I want this perl statement to be at the begining of each line. I can get the word 'perl' to work but if there is a space after the word 'perl'it doesnt work at all.

%s/\(.*\)/perl -pi -e"s/string1/string2/g"

I have tried putting all sorts of quotes around it

%s/\(.*\)/'perl -pi -e"s/string1/string2/g"'

This doesnt work either, any ideas ?

 

[LoloFR]

Hello,
At first you have to use a \ with the last two / and then add a & to copy the line

Here is my solution :
%s/.*/perl -e"s\/string1\/string2\/g" &


@+
Lolo

 

[CaKiwi]

Or use a different delimeter and substitute the binginning of the line using the ^ meta-character

%s#^#perl -pi -e"s/string1/string2/g"#

CaKiwi

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