Pattern Matching and text deletion using VI

roadrunner · October 28, 2011, 1:39pm

Can someone please assist me, I'm trying to get vi to remove all the occurences of the text in a file i.e. "DEVICE=/dev/mt??". The "??" represents a number variable. Is there a globel search and delete command that I can use?
Thank You in Advance.

vgersh99 · October 28, 2011, 1:44pm

# to delete
:%s#DEVICE=/dev/mt[0-9][0-9]##g

roadrunner · October 28, 2011, 2:03pm

I'm using AIX, if that makes a difference. Is the # correct? My docs show "/" instead.

vgersh99 · October 28, 2011, 2:08pm

it can be any single character. If you use '/' you'll need to escape the '/' in the path of your device with '\'.