On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 12:51:22PM +1300, Rik Tindall wrote:
> Not wanting to be a pain, but...
> >>>There's a few f-words that have been tried once that I don't think
> >>>are commands. (At least, not on my system)
> >>find, ftp and file all work on my system :-)
> >s/a\ few/two/g
> I won't be the only one wondering what to Google here.
load this email into vi, and type:
:%s/a\ few/two/g
observe the result.
it's an ed command.
ed is a historical unix editor. vi incorporates ed, while sed is a
streaming version of ed.
greetings, martin.
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