Vi editor ?

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hello everybody,

My question is: how to add /tmp/work at the end of line in vi editor.

my file looks like:

cp file1
cp file2
cp file3
****

I need to add " /tmp/work" at the end of each line.
I tried this
:%s/$/" /tmp/work"

and this
:%s/$/\ /tmp/work\/

but it does not work.

Please help.

Thank you

2

There are a couple of ways to fix this. First, remember that the / between tmp and work is seen as a separator. So you can use
:%s/$/ \/tmp\/work\//

or you could change the separator like this:

"%s:$: /tmp/work/:

Both of these options will change the file to

cp file1 /tmp/work/
cp file2 /tmp/work/
cp file3 /tmp/work/

;

3

Thank you very much :).
All the best.