replacing text

[darfader]

Hi,

what is the syntax for replacing text please ?

it's something like /%S/ipnet/telex

but I cannot find it in the man pages

$ man /
No manual entry for /.
$ man pattern
No manual entry for pattern.
$ man substituion
No manual entry for substituion.
$ man matching
No manual entry for matching.


tia,

 

[vgersh99]

man regexp

vlad
+----------------------------+
| #include<disclaimer.h> |
+----------------------------+

 

[darfader]

ty again vlad

 

[jad]

where are you replacing, what type of script? what language?

from command line:
echo &quot;String you want something replaced with&quot; | sed 's/thing to change/string to change to/g'

from perl:
$var=&quot;String you want something replaced with&quot; ;
$var~=s/thing to change/string to change to/g

etc...

 

[darfader]

its in vi

I want to replace a string with a string like this

/%S/ipnet/telex

but I haven't got it to work

 

[jad]

:g/<string to find>/s//<string to replace>/g

:g <-- Globallay through the document
/<string to find>/ <-- find this string
s//<string to replace>/ <-- replace the aforementioned string
g <-- globally on this line

does that help?

 

[PHV]

Obviusly: man vi ...
What do you want to do ?
Change the word &quot;ipnet&quot; by the word &quot;telex&quot; on the line containing &quot;%S&quot; ?
If so then try this:

:/%S/s/ipnet/telex/

Otherwise, position your cursor on the line to modify and type this:

:s/ipnet/telex/

Hope This Help
PH.

 

[darfader]

jad & PH:

isn't English wonderful !

I am amazed how one question can be interpreted so many different ways

I thought the command I wanted began /%S/target/replacement from some time ago, after looking in man vi and not finding it, I decided to ask here, now to what I want is, to parse through a text file finding all occurances of target and replacing it with replacement

thank you both for your suggestions

 

[jad]

:g/<string to find>/s//<string to replace>/g

as i said before.

probably:

:g/ipnet/s//telex/g

 

[PHV]

Try someting like this in vi:

:1,$s/ipnet/telex/g

Hope This Help
PH.

 

[butterfm]

Or you can do ..

:%s /ipnet/telex/g

Which I think is what you were trying to do originally.
Matt.

 

[darfader]

yes your'e right

all three work and this

<:%s /ipnet/telex/g>

was what I was trying to remember,


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