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From: witold@enme1.ucalgary.ca (Witold Jan Owoc)
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Subject: Re: regexp..prepending a line globally (Vi)
Keywords: ed, ex, vi
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Date: 4 Jul 90 16:04:53 GMT
References: <1772@island.uu.net> <3236@d75.UUCP> <130@npdiss1.StPaul.NCR.COM>
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In article <130@npdiss1.StPaul.NCR.COM> mercer@npdiss1.StPaul.NCR.COM (Dan Mercer) writes:
>1,$s/^/\/usr\/acct\/xxxx.../
>
>
>Be sure to escape the slashes.
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
1,$s;^;/usr/acct/xxx...;

Depending on setting of 'magic' you can pick up
any non-alphanumeric character instead of ; or /

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