Re: vi, search string and comment line howto?

Thanks to all of you who posted, and I apologize for posting in the
wrong forum and for reposting (something was up with my post being
accepted to nabble). The following both worked great, I needed a vim
only solution as I'm running on various distributed operating systems
and sed (with out the -i option) was to much work.

vim -c "/my_string/s/^/#/" -c "wq" file
vim -c "%s/.*my_string.*/# &/" file

Produced desired output:
# cat file
line 1 and stuff
# line 2 contains my_string
line 3 and stuf

Thanks!

On Mar 2, 11:23 pm, "John Beckett" <johnb.beck...@gmail.com> wrote:
> omonte7 wrote:
> > Subject: vi, search string and comment line howto?
>
> You must be having trouble with your mail system because
> you have posted the same message three times.
>
> The replies to your message are here:http://groups.google.com/group/vim_use/browse_thread/thread/3ff28355f...
>
> I have set your account to "moderated" so that any further
> repeats can be removed before appearing on the list.
>
> While doing that I notice that you are set to
>     No Email - read this group on the web
> so I will send a CC.
>
> John

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