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Inserting text using vi

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Name: Richard
Date: September 14, 2001 at 14:10:31 Pacific
Comment:

Hello people!
Can anybody please tell me how you can globally insert words into a text file using vi??
I need to be able to insert the words 'echo dummy' between 2 words on many lines of a text file.
Any help would be very much appreciated.
Thanks



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Name: tom z.
Date: September 15, 2001 at 12:21:36 Pacific
Reply:

First, be sure to make a copy of the file, then:

vi filename

This is a sed input to while in vi:

:1,$/first second/first new second/g

That should do it, be sure to save the change afterwards.

Hope this helps, good luck.


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Response Number 2
Name: acidchaoz
Date: September 18, 2001 at 13:51:45 Pacific
Reply:

why use vi when you can use pico?

i consider pico to be a better editor than vi


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