Thanks a lot Pratik. From: Pratik Vyas <[email protected]> Sent: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 16:08:24 To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] [OT] Help on Vi Command Hi Joel,
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Joel A Divekar <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi All > I am trying to do the following > Search for all lines starting with&nbsp;INSERT&nbsp;command and append ;&nbsp;at End of Line > > I am aware about search and replace using > :%s/^INSERT/$;/g > but this replaces INSERT and not append ; at end of the line.&nbsp;Kindly help > Regards > Try, :%s/^INSERT\(.*\)$/\0\&nbsp\;/g ie. Capture everything after the INSERT and replace it by itself (\0) and the text you want you append. > > Joel Divekar > -- > http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers Thanks. Pratik -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
