Search and Replace

[darfader]

Hi,

I am currently opening a file and using this command

:%s / /;/g

replacing a tab with a semi-colon,

I was just wondering if I could do it without manually opening the file ?


tia,

 

[grega]

You could do sed 's/ /;/g' filename > newfile

Greg.

 

[darfader]

thanks Greg

 

[predamarcel]

you can use also vi:
vi +'%s/ /;/g|wq' x.txt
or
vi +'%s/ /;/g|wq newfile' x.txt

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[aixmurderer]

I got lazy, found a package called "rpl" which does replaces very nicely and easily.

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[darfader]

thanks chaps,

I think I'll stick with the SED one, I have just read that if I wanted to do more than one at time, I could use the -e flag

 

[predamarcel]

same thing you can do in vi, look at `|'.

vi +'command1|command2|...|command_n' file


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[darfader]

well well well


thanks predamarcel