A vi question

[stan]

vi is a continuing learning experinece :-)

The lesson I would like to learn today is given a file containing lines of
this format:

SOR XIC I:016/0 BST OTE B3/200 NXB OTE N51:4/13 BND EOR

I need to delete evrything on each line _before_ the OTE. The strings
preceding the OTE are vairable. So I need a command that saya:

for each line find everyhting from the begining of the line through OTE,
and substitue OTE for it. or at leat that's one idea I had. I am ceratin
there is more than one way to solve this problem.

I was thinking that I needed something like:

:.,$s/^*OTE/OTE/

But * is not the appropriate wildcard here in vi.

Any sugestions?

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