How to indent the file lines using vi?

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Every now and then I have to indent the lines in my script to 4 space characters.

I generally do it line by line.

Is there an automated command in vi using which I can indent some set of lines to desired number of space characters in one go.

2

To indent the next five lines, you can use this command.

5>>

The number of characters to be used is set with the shift-width parameter. eg:

:set sw=4
3

Thanks, it worked.