Friday 16 February 2007

vi search & replace paths & filenames.

When doing search and replace in vi, there is no need to 'escape' forward slash characters '/' when manipulating pathnames. Instead, simply change the character used to delimit the search terms to something other than '/' directly within vi (no .exrc change needed).

e.g.

./.cpan/build/Archive-Tar-1.30
./.cpan/build/Archive-Tar-1.30/bin
./.cpan/build/Archive-Tar-1.30/bin/ptar
./.cpan/build/Archive-Tar-1.30/bin/ptardiff
./.cpan/build/Archive-Tar-1.30/blib
./.cpan/build/Archive-Tar-1.30/blib/arch


Then use the string below which uses '?' where usually a '/' is used to separate and delimit the srearch & replace terms. In this example I am replacing ...cpan/build... with ...cpan/build/z/y/z...

:%s?cpan/build?cpan/build/z/y/z?

Which results in

./.cpan/build/x/y/z/Archive-Tar-1.30
./.cpan/build/x/y/x/Archive-Tar-1.30/bin
./.cpan/build/x/y/x/Archive-Tar-1.30/bin/ptar
./.cpan/build/x/y/x/Archive-Tar-1.30/bin/ptardiff
./.cpan/build/x/y/x/Archive-Tar-1.30/blib
./.cpan/build/x/y/x/Archive-Tar-1.30/blib/arch

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