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  From: BlackAdder <daved@uq.net.au>
  To  : linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au
  Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 20:03:59 +0930

RE: Vi question

Mark Asked:
> I've searched in the man pages and various docs - but with no success. I'm
> wondering if there is a way of delimiting the vi search and replace so
> that the forward slash can be included. Normally for search and replace
> I'd use something like:
> %s/old/new/g
> and it works.
> What I want to do is replace a line like:
> file://localhost/someuser/somedirectory/file.html
> with:
> http://some_www_address/file.html"
> but the forward slashes are screwing it up.
> Any help appreciated.

You need to delimit the / with an esc char ie: \

s/file:\/\//http:\/\//g

(I think that's the right number of slashes)

Dave

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