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FirebarUK · 23 Aug 2006 at 11:31

I've got a mahooosive text file of some netware contexts and for each line I need to replace the root container. So for example;

bob.jimmy.centre

needs to be

bob.jimmy.newplace

(on around 2000 lines)

Its probably quite obvious but how can I do this in vi using a global replace command?

:%s/*.*.centre/*.*.newplace/g

Although thats absolute or whatever, so *.*.newplace does actually get pumped in.

Anyone got any ideas?

Thanks for your help.

EKsparky · 23 Aug 2006 at 12:26

U lost me abit
My linux pc in bits so i cant test your code
But could you not just cat your text file and pipe it to sed

Code:

cat old.txt | sed -e 's/centre/newplace/g'  > new.txt

FirebarUK · 23 Aug 2006 at 12:29

Yeah thats what I've been thinking. I'll try that, thanks

lloydsj · 23 Aug 2006 at 12:30

depends on your what the rest of your data is like.

...but if they all contain jimmy then try...

:%s/jimmy.centre/jimmy.newplace/g

OR if you are certain that .centre only exists where you want to replace it then just do...

:%s/.centre/.newplace/g

Cheers.

FirebarUK · 23 Aug 2006 at 18:52

^

Ignore me, I hadn't thought of trying .centre and substituting with .newplace, cheers.