A vi question

[Rashkae]

stan wrote:

> I was thinking that I needed something like:
> 
> :.,$s/^*OTE/OTE/
> 
> But * is not the appropriate wildcard here in vi.
> 
> Any sugestions?
> 


I don't know vi, so might be misinterpretting some of it's quirks/features.

However, strictly from a standard expression POV, you need .* rather than *

(. is the regular expression for any character.  * indicates that it
will match any number of .)

So try: :.,$s/^.*OTE/OTE/