Inserting a character in certain column

[Karl Larsen]

Oliver Grawert wrote:
> hi,
> Am Montag, den 25.02.2008, 08:24 -0800 schrieb Szemerédy Gábor:
>   
>> Hello list!
>> I need to insert a character in certain column in all rows of the file 
>> using vi.
>> Please help
>>     
>
> i think you want the visual block function ... you get to it with ctrl+v
>
> ciao
> 	oli
>   
    I have been using dd and just to copy one partition to another but 
reading the man page it seems dd can do what you want. You might want to 
look at it.

Karl


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