Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:01:02 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: gahn <ipfreak@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd general questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: vi editing Message-ID: <87y6jzmbv5.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <723540.47549.qm@web52106.mail.re2.yahoo.com> (gahn's message of "Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:37:49 -0800 (PST)") References: <723540.47549.qm@web52106.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 07:37:49 -0800 (PST), gahn <ipfreak@yahoo.com> 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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