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From: eli@panda.uucp (Eli Taub/100000)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: regexp..prepending a line globally (Vi)
Keywords: ed, ex, vi
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Date: 3 Jul 90 15:16:00 GMT
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Cross posting from comp.unix.questions:
In article <1772@island.uu.net> daniel@island.uu.net (Daniel Smith - OPD Gang) writes:
>
>	All my years in vi and this one stumps me!  I wanted
>to make a real quick shell script, taken from the output
>of an ls-lR on uunet.  So, I get these lines:
>
>/usr/spool/ftp/comp.sources.unix/volume22/nn6.4:
>part01.Z
>part02.Z
>part03.Z
>
Stuff deleted ...
>
>What I want to end up with is:
>/usr/spool/ftp/comp.sources.unix/volume22/nn6.4/part01.Z
>/usr/spool/ftp/comp.sources.unix/volume22/nn6.4/part02.Z
>
>				Daniel
>-- 
>   dansmith@well.sf.ca.us   daniel@island.uu.net   unicom!daniel@pacbell.com
>ph: (415) 332 3278 (h), 491 1000 (w) disclaimer: Island's coffee was laced :-)

The real answer should be - use sed, awk and friends,
or use `find <dir> -print' when possible.
But since you asked for it ...:

$s/$/^M:/
g/:/s@\(.*\):@,//- s!^!\1/!@\
d a\
*a

[ ^M stands for: <CONTROL>V <ENTER> ]

To use, simply insert the above lines into a file, say exls,
and source it like `so' in (ex) command mode:      :so exls

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