Questions tagged [ex]
For questions pertaining the ex utility, a line-oriented text editor first developed by Bill Joy in 1976. The ex editor was later extended with a "visual mode", which turned into the vi screen editor. Use this tag for questions about ex itself, using ex, or questions about issues arising from the usage of utility itself.
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Find a string and replace another string on a following line after the first string is found
Given a file with the following content:
pkg1:
replicaCount: 1
image:
tag: latest
pullPolicy: Always
pkg2:
replicaCount: 2
image:
tag: latest
pullPolicy: Always
I want to ...
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How to use vim command-mode indention in ex colon-mode?
I am trying to script some file changes using ex per this answer.
The issue that I'm running into is that ex seems to assume that every command is preceded by a colon, so while I can do something ...
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How to use 'itextESC' when using ex as a text editor in command line?
I like using the traditional ex editor for simple command line operations, to re-arrange text within files. For example for a simple moving lines across in a file I would use something like
foo
bar
...
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Place Single Dot With Vim/Ex
I'm messing around with vim one liners, and I'm unable to escape a . character in a vim ex mode append command.
Basically,
vim -En '+a|Hello World' '+p' '+q!' -
prints "Hello World"
But,
vim -...
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Does traditional vi (not vim) have large file support?
Is there a way to compile traditional Vi (ex) with large-file (3+ GB) support?
I'm trying to open a file that is around 3.5GBs in size and Vi simply says: Tmp file too large. If large-file support ...
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How can I use sed or ex to replace a block (multi-line code) with new block of text (code)?
I have to replace a large block of a text (shell script code) in a file with another block of text.
I am impressed with the How can I use sed to replace a multi-line string? answered by
antak and ...
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EX editor: go to previous file
Using ex I open 3 files
ex file1 file2 file3
I know
the command :n goes to file 2 and file3
the command :rew go to file1 from file3 or file2
But what command can I use to go to previous file?
I ...
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Is replacing a particular line in a file through a bash script possible in VIM or EX?
I would like to modify a particular line, say line 5, in a file by using the EOEX construct how can I achieve my aim? The code snippet that I use to achieve my purpose is as follows:
#!/bin/bash
S=0....
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How to find last matching line with ex?
The ex command $ navigates to the first character of the last line. Therefore, when doing a backwards search it skips the line it's currently on. How do I navigate to the last character with ex, or ...
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VISUAL vs. EDITOR – what’s the difference?
I generally set both VISUAL and EDITOR environment variables to the same thing, but what's the difference? Why would I set them differently? When developing apps, why should I choose to look at VISUAL ...
