[geeks] regex question, I suppose...

[geeks at sunhelp.org]

pwargo at basenji.com writes:

>Reminds me of the time I watched a scientist trying to do a search &
>replace on a 5M sequence file using vi over NFS... He came to me in
>frustration after 2 hours had passed... I showed him a single-line sed
>that did it in 18 seconds...  Sometimes, the old ways are the best.

Of course if you can do it in one line of sed, then you can use the
same command in vi...

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