druddle

Hello

I have a massive Solaris /etc/vfstab file that has a load of entries I need to copy but change a portion of the name in it, as i have created a duplicate Oracle Apps environment on my Netapp to do some testing on.

I am trying to work out how to do the following in vi, can anyone help me....

Replace all occurences of the string "tst" with "dba" from the current line to the end of the file.

Thanks in advance.

Dave

boxst

Hello

Urrgg... vi ... I used to hate and love it. Hate it because it's a pain, and love it because it was sometimes the only thing I could use having telnet'ed to an alien machine.

Anyway, have a read: http://www.eng.hawaii.edu/Tutor/vi.html and specifically for your request here: http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~arik/unix98...1-unix101.html

Steve

DrEvil

:1,$s/tst/dba/g

this will replace all occurances of tst with dba, even if more than one entry per line (g = global per record).

DrEvil

Ps. you can substitute the '1' for the starting line number

PPS. you can find out the starting line number using

:# <return>

druddle

Top one, thanks Steve/Alex.

Dave