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Subject: Re: "vi" problem with search & replace (vi do not accept "/").
In-Reply-To: <365B4001.4EFA71EB@aei.ca> from Malartre at "Nov 24, 98 06:23:45 pm"
To: malartre@aei.ca (Malartre)
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 07:18:20 -0600 (CST)
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Put a \ in front of every /

:%s/<\/TT><\/B><\/FONT>/<<\/COMMAND>>/g

Or, I think you can substitute a different character
for the / in the vi command. 

:%s!</TT></B></FONT>!<</COMMAND>>!g

In a previous message, Malartre said:
> This is not FreeBSD specific, but I guess someone could give me the
> trick:
> I want to "search & replace" the sentence "</TT></B></FONT>" with
> "<</COMMAND>>".
> 
> :%s/</TT></B></FONT>/<</COMMAND>>/g
> 
> But that give me an error (has I expected, because of the "/" in those
> HTML tags.
> 
> Usage: [line [,line]] s [[/;]RE[/;]repl[/;] [cgr] [count] [#lp]].
> 
> Well, I don't know how to type a "/" without interfering with vi's /.
> 
> Thank you
> -- 
> [Malartre][malartre@aei.ca][http://www.lowrent.org/freebsd/malartre/]
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