This is along the line of a couple of posts today, so I thought I would finally ask. When I have a document open in vi, sometimes I would like to do a change and have it apply to only one line, I know how to do it globally, but I can not seem to find out how to do it for just the one line. Example: For global: say I have a html document and my image directory is named "images". I decide to change the name of the directory to pictures, I know to do this for the whole document I do: :%s/images/pictures/g Now what I can not figure out is if I have the same document, and on one line I have a file named son.gif four times. I have the same file name through out the document, but just on this one line I need to change all four son.gif to daughter.gif. I do not know how to do this. I have tried: :%s/son.gif/daughter.gif but this did not work. Could someone please offer some insight on how to do this. It would save me a lot of typing. Thank You in advance. Mike One is led to truth through the interpretation of a myth. ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss