Mike,
Instead of using a global variable like % replace it with the line
number(s) in question.
:%s/images/pics/g global
:12s/son.gif/daughter.gif/g replaces line 12 all instances
:1,12s/son/daughter/g Replace all instances of son.gif with daughter on
lines 1-12
--Colin.ansel.Rasor
On 8/19/05 2:27 PM, "MCR" <
mike1071@yahoo.com> wrote:
> This is along the line of a couple of posts today, so
> I thought I would finally ask. When I have a document
> open in vi, sometimes I would like to do a change and
> have it apply to only one line, I know how to do it
> globally, but I can not seem to find out how to do it
> for just the one line. Example:
> For global: say I have a html document and my image
> directory is named "images". I decide to change the
> name of the directory to pictures, I know to do this
> for the whole document I do:
> :%s/images/pictures/g
>
> Now what I can not figure out is if I have the same
> document, and on one line I have a file named son.gif
> four times. I have the same file name through out the
> document, but just on this one line I need to change
> all four son.gif to daughter.gif. I do not know how
> to do this. I have tried:
> :%s/son.gif/daughter.gif <enter>
>
> but this did not work. Could someone please offer
> some insight on how to do this. It would save me a
> lot of typing. Thank You in advance.
>
> Mike
>
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