Commands for vi and vim.

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Contents
1 Search and Replace 1.1 Replace 'foo' with 'bar' throughout the file 1.2 Break 'foo,bar' with a newline after the comma 1.3 Remove DOS ^M linefeeds 1.4 Replacing a pattern with linefeeds 2 Indents 3 Files 3.1 Insert File

Search and Replace

Replace 'foo' with 'bar' throughout the file

:g/foo/s//bar/g

In vi you can include a newline in a substitution by using the \r character on Linux.

For example, to put a newline after the comma for every occurrence of foo,bar use:

 g/foo,bar/s//foo,\rbar/g

To remove annoying DOS linefeeds on a Linux/Unix system, use:

:%s/\r//

To break up really long lines using a pattern, use the appropriate escaped linefeed character or characters ( "\r" on Windows):

:s/;C:/\r/g

To break up a really long Java classpath on Linux, substitute <tt>:/</tt> with a linefeed ("\r") then <tt>/</tt>:

:s/:\//\r\//g

To indent the current line, use >>

To outdent the current line, use <<

To indent/outdent a bunch of lines, type a number before >> or <<

:r <filename>

read in a file, insert after current position