Vi search and replace

[Joachim Backes]

Phil wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to do a search and replace in vi but I need to search and 
> replace on "/T"
> 
> so how do I escape the /?
> 
> %s/"/T"/T/g obvisouly does not work....
> 
> how do I specify a / in the vi search string?
> 

For example:

:1,$s!/!!g

is the same as

:1,$s/\//g

removes all / chars in all lines (you can use another search pattern delimiter instead of "/" - 
this is "!" here). In this way, escaping is not needed.

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