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user1172482
user1172482

Reputation: 289

Search for string and add line in vi/vim

I'm trying to edit a config file and want to add a specific line of code (on a newline) whenever a specific string is matched...everything I've searched for does search and replace, I'm looking for search and append...

Upvotes: 16

Views: 18944

Answers (3)

Kent
Kent

Reputation: 195139

personally, i think using ":g" command is probably better than ":s" for this problem.

:g/key/norm owhat ever you want

will make text:

foo
bar
key
foo2
bar2
key2
blah

to:

foo
bar
key
what ever you want
foo2
bar2
key2
what ever you want
blah

if you want to add the new line above the line containing the pattern, just change the small "o" to "O".

Upvotes: 19

Tassos
Tassos

Reputation: 3298

This is what I would do:

:g/specific string/s/.*/&specific line of code

The g command fetches all lines containing specific string and then apply the s substitute command to those lines. The s command substitutes the whole line with its contents plus the specific line of code

HTH

Upvotes: 0

jaypal singh
jaypal singh

Reputation: 77115

In vim \r is the new-line. So you can do something like this

%s/search string/&\rnew code/

Upvotes: 15

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