[ale] dumb vi question

[Richard Kolkovich]

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On 07/24/06 13:20, Greg Freemyer declared:
> All,
> 
> I'm apparently getting rusty on my vi.
> 
> I have a mysql dump file that I want to look at closer by hand.
> 
> Currently the rows are seperated by ),(
> 
> I want to replace those with newlines.  I'm willing to do it from vi,
> or the commandline.
> 
>>From vi I would think it would be something like :s/),(/$/
> 
> I assume I need to escape some of that, so I tried
> :s/\),\(/$/
> 
> but I'm getting an error about unmatched \)
> 
> Can someone give me the syntax?
> 
> Thanks, Greg

Try:

:%s/),(/\r/g

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Richard Kolkovich
sarumont at sigil.org


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