Question

I am trying do a find and replace in VI to remove a timestamp. I usually do this in VI using the S command but how do I tell VI I need to remove colons when its part of the structure of the VI command itself

EX: ” xxxxx xxxxx 24:00:00 CDT”

tried

s:24:00:00 CDT::g

s:"24:00:00 CDT"::g

s:/:::g

Any assistance is appreciated.

Answer 1

Normally, vi uses the character that follows the command letter as seperator.

Try this:

s!24:00:00 CDT!!g