Vi Cheat Sheet

From Shrubbery

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

[edit] Search and Replace

[edit] Replace 'foo' with 'bar' throughout the file

:g/foo/s//bar/g

[edit] Break 'foo,bar' with a newline after the comma

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 occurrency of foo,bar use:

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

[edit] Remove DOS ^M linefeeds

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

:%s/\r//

[edit] Replacing a pattern with linefeeds

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

:s/;C:/\r/g

[edit] Indents

To indent the current line, use >>

To outdent the current line, use <<

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