> Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2017 at 4:50 AM
> From: "Cameron Simpson" <cs@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Community support for Fedora users" <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: vi
>
> On 08Nov2017 23:58, Patrick Dupre <pdupre@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >Actually, the issue is with the $
> [...]
> > I would like to execute a vi command as a bash command like:
> > vi +:1 "+1,$s/E/e/g" "+wq" test.TXT
> > But it does not work!
> >
> > under vi, I would do:
> > vi test.TXT
> > :1
> > :1,$s/E/e/g
> > :wq
> >
> > could you tell me what I am missing?
>
> This is why you should always use single quotes (') instead of double quotes
> (") unless there is some reason not to, such as _wanting_ to substitute a shell
> variable into a string.
>
> As an aside, is there a reason you want to use vi for this instead of something
> like sed?
Can I make 2 substitutions on a single call with sed?
>
> Cheers,
> Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> (formerly cs@xxxxxxxxxx)
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