Summary: Bizarre vi problem on Solaris

From: Sanjiv K. Bhatia (sanjiv@aryabhat.cs.umsl.edu)
Date: Thu Sep 09 1999 - 13:10:12 CDT

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Hi all:

Mark Olson solved the problem for me. The solution is to use /usr/xpg4/bin/vi
instead of other versions of vi. It also solved the problem I would have
encountered with sed, as other versions of sed rejected the reg exp I had.

Sanjiv

Thanks to:

"Robert L. Harris" <Robert.Harris@commerce.com> Mark Olson <mark_olson@adc.com> John Bonura <johnb@univ-wea.com> Tim Carlson <tim@santafe.edu>

Original question:

Hi all:

I want to replace multiple occurrences of a regular expression by a single one. For example, the following line

catcatcatcatcatcatdogcatcatcatcatcatcat

is to be replaced as

mousedogmouse

I have tried

:s/\(cat\)\{1,\}/mouse/g

but it does not help. I tried the exact same command on SGI IRIX 6.2 and it worked, but failed on IRIX 5.3.

I am using Solaris 2.7 on an ultra 10, and tried it on SunOS 4.1.3 as well, but without success. Please help.

Thanks.

Sanjiv -- Sanjiv K. Bhatia Department of Math & Computer Science sanjiv@aryabhat.umsl.edu University of Missouri -- St. Louis voice: (314)-516-6520 St. Louis, MO 63121-4499 fax : (314)-516-5400 http://www.cs.umsl.edu/Faculty/sanjiv.html

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