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From: Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk>
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Cc: gahn <ipfreak@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: vi editing
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On Friday 15 January 2010, gahn wrote:

> Hi gurus:
>
> I am trying to add a word on every line (right in front of every
> line) via vi. Right now I have:
>
> xxxxxxxxx
> xxxxxxxxx
> xxxxxxxxx
>
> after that, I want to have:
>
> "new word" xxxxxxxxx
> "new word" xxxxxxxxx
> "new word" xxxxxxxxx
>
> How could I do that with vi?

:%s/^/"new word"/

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Mike Clarke