I've been messing with this for about an hour now and I know it is so simple but I can't find the right syntax.



I have a 1000+ line file with multiple path references such as /opt/www/html/images

The issue is I have multiple subdirectories within html that need to reference the images directory relatively by ../images or ../../images


I want to use VI to do a global replace however it does not like the extra slash

eg. %s/images/../images/g
Error Trailing Characters


Can someone tell me how to fix this. I have tried using "quotes" and 'literals' however with no success. I'm still learning so thanks for the help


: > window$

try using the \ before the slashes in your expression

:%s/\images/..\/images


The above worked thanks!. I knew it was simple I was trying to put the \ before the .. so that it didn't like.


Thanks again