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From: coleman@cam.nist.gov (Sean Sheridan Coleman X5672)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
Subject: changing a ! to a \nC where \n is a newline
Keywords: vi
Message-ID: <5015@alpha.cam.nist.gov>
Date: 17 Sep 90 22:20:02 GMT
Organization: National Institute of Standards & Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
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I am trying to use the global substitution power in vi to 
replace every occurrence of ! with a newline and a C (\nC)

I have tried the following things:

g/;/s//\\nC/g   places the string \\nC where the ; is not a
newline.

g/;/s//\nC/g -- places a nC where the ; is.

Do you know how to make get vi to put a newline not a \n 
when doing the substitution?

How about the reverse, replace a newline with a character?


Sean Coleman
NIST
coleman@bldrdoc.gov