The following command should do what you want: %s/^\d\{3} \zs9/ Note that this will only work if the phone numbers have the exact format you give. The regex is very specific, to make it a little more unlikely to screw up anything else in the file. Since you said you were having trouble, I’ll explain … Read more
I am not sure if it is what you need, yet you can use sed in bash. I also assume that your data is stored in a file called temptest2 sed “s/\(.*Specialty.*\)\”/\1\n/g” temptest2 Use -i to save the output to the temptest2 () specify a field for you, which is being called by \1 and … Read more
You may have pressed v instead of CTRL+V. I.e. You released the CTRL button before pressing v. solved vim: why block mode selection becomes normal moving-mouse selection
Use something simple like sed: sed -r ‘s/^([0-9]*)$/update “table1” set event_type = \’NEW\’ where id=\1/’ file | write back using \1 as placeholder catch digits in the file Previous answer I used an approach based on bash loops, whereas it is a bit overkilling. See a related question: Why is using a shell loop to … Read more
It sounds like you are using Vi as your editor (:x is a bit of a give-away). From this page: Crypt Open the file using vi, type :XEnter, enter the key (this key will be the password to see the crypted file) and then save and exit with :wqEnter. The file will be crypted. You … Read more
You don’t have to remove Vim from your machine. Instead, tell your system and your tools to use Sublime Text as default editor. After you have followed that tutorial, which I must point out is part of Sublime Text’s documentation, you should have a system-wide subl command that you can use instead of vim. For … Read more