Question on Unix vi editor

[ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb]

Using the vi editor on HPUX today (yes, this person is working today, despite the beautiful autumn weather), I had to find a certain constant in a large file. The constant was 'EQUAL/IN' (without the apostrophe). So I entered the following command in vi:

/EQUAL/IN

and hit the enter key. Nothing happened.

It seems that the slash in my search constant interferes with the slash search command. Is there any way to specify a slash in the search constant? Some kind of escape, perhaps?

Sorry for asking Unix questions in the Linux forum :blush: but I believe it's pretty close.

[trackrat]

This would be a better place to post this question Pat.

http://www.unix-manuals.com/forum/index.php

[scuzzman]

The escape character is a backslash (\). The string you want is /EQUAL\/IN

[ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb]

This would be a better place to post this question Pat.

http://www.unix-manuals.com/forum/index.php

Thanks for the link; I will visit when I have another Unix question.

The escape character is a backslash (\). The string you want is /EQUAL\/IN

Thanks for the backslash - it works!

[ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb]

Just found that the backslash excape character also works for grep and fgrep.

[scuzzman]

Yep. Also works with Perl, and just about anything else you can come up with :)