Vi search and replace
Phil Meyer
pmeyer at themeyerfarm.com
Tue Oct 17 14:10:42 UTC 2006
Phil wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to do a search and replace in vi but I need to search and
> replace on "/T"
>
> so how do I escape the /?
>
> %s/"/T"/T/g obvisouly does not work....
>
> how do I specify a / in the vi search string?
One method not yet mentioned, is to use the ? character as the separator
when performing functions against the / character:
:g?/T?s??/Tommy?g
means: search and replace all occurrences of /T with /Tommy
Forgive my old regex style. :)
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