Inserting text using vi

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Name: Richard
Date: September 14, 2001 at 14:10:31 Pacific
Subject: Inserting text using vi

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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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Response Number 1

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

Reply: (edit)

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: (edit)

why use vi when you can use pico?
i consider pico to be a better editor than vi

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