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Dru-Jitsu · 06-26-2010, 08:22 PM

Using vi change every occurance of **/**/** to the word NEVER. Note that both the * and the / are special charaacters to the search and replace :s/abc/def/g command so you must escape each one of these characters (that's eight backslashes).

heres what I am doing
1,$ s/ \*\*\/\*\*\/\*\* /NEVER/g doesnt work (Spaces are there to make it easier to read)

Dru-Jitsu · 06-26-2010, 08:33 PM

I just ran it without the 1,$ at the beggining...

s/ \*\*\/\*\*\/\*\* /NEVER/g

It searched and found all the of the **/**/** but it only changed the very last one to NEVER.

grail · 06-27-2010, 01:46 AM

Code:

:%s/\*\*\/\*\*\/\*\*/NEVER/g

Worked like a charm for me. In case you are not sure, the % is the same as 1,$