quick vi problem :| (search and replace)
 

im trying to search and remove all instances of "../"

im using %s@../@@gc but its not doing it.. anyone use this program? its fucking voodoo to me :)

http://kb.iu.edu/data/acoj.html

or

http://www.google.com/

this does not help my problem, but thanks for trying! believed me i used a search engine for 30 minutes and read pages of vi manuals with no success

Ok hehe.. you can always open it in pico too, it's an easier editor. vi is kinda outdated

try: pico file.txt

Wait, you want to do ../ right, maybe you should add a backslash in front of the slash, or maybe you should try [../]

thanks again heh, but the version of pico installed does not do replace for some reason :| and the box doesnt have the right glib library for the newer version and im not messing about with installing stuff i dont know about on a live server :S :)

See, in perl i would have either used the backslash idea or the [../] idea. If they don't do anything, then try: s^../^^g

if that doesnt do anything then you should get the file to notepad and do it there, but that might leave windows newlines you don't want hehe.

trying what you suggested now :)

swapping out the delimiter is what i tried, and for some reason it finds every occurance of / and not the ../ before it.


damn voooddooooooooo :S.

!!! i will keep googling :)

:1,$s/\.\.\///g

. is wildcard, it must be escaped
/ is special char, it must be escaped

That's probably since a '.' is usually preserved for something too... that's why I suggested [../] instead of ../, which is the way to go with perl hmm.. i have no idea then.

oh shit - that worked perfectly! thanks! i had no idea a . was also a special character there.. thanks for the help :)

yay. hehe well.. close :D.

oh well. thanks for helping, and making this the longest thread on gfy about vi - we are setting history! :winkwink: :1orglaugh

forget it.. someone already posted it .


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