On Tuesday 18 September 2001 04:38, Craig wrote: > Hi ladies and fellas > > Need to do an extended find and replace with VIM, anyone > know the syntax for me ? I have a really long named.conf > file I need to modify ... > > Kind regards > Craig sed -e 's/what_to_find/replace_it_with_this/g' named.conf By default it sends all the output to stdout. You can redirect it to another file. It does multi-line as well. Try info sed or Google it. Very cool program. Jesse -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]