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Using Vim to add something to the end of a series of a lines

I would like to use VIM to add something to the end of a series of lines. Ideally I could do something like add " X" (with a space before the X) to the end of lines 1-40 and 50-60 in a single command, i.e. ideally I could have a break in between where I didn't add something. If that's not possible just adding to 1-40 and 50-60 separately would work too.

I would be using bufdo to do this, but my understanding is that anything you can do in vim you can use with the bufdo command.

Thanks in advance!

For the single range of lines:

Code:

:1,40s/$/ X/

Thanks, that's a huge help. I think that resolves things.

You can also do it with sed:

Code:

sed '1,40 s/.*/& X/ ; 50,60 s/.*/& X/'