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1

Hi,
how can I add at the begining and at the end of all of the lines of my text file in VI editor ? Many thanks before.
for exemple if in my file i have
line 1
line 2
I want to have :
start line 1 end
start line 2 end

2 
:%s/^\(.*\)$/start \1 end/
3

Thank you.
What if instead of start I want to put : DROP TABLESPACE
and instead of end : INCLUDING CONTENTS.
Many thanks again.

4

quite the same:

: 1,$ s/.*/DROP TABLESPACE & INCLUDING CONTENTS/

Replace "DROP TABLESPACE" with any other text you may want to put at the beginning of the line and "INCLUDING CONTENTS" with any other text you may want to put at the end.

bakunin