Searching in vi

[didko6]

Hello guys,

i have a question about VI .If anyone knows how to search when i enter in a directory.For example i enter in vi /etc/localdomains and there is a list of domains.Which button/buttons i have to use to search ?

Thank you in advance!

Regards

[TrevorH]

Hit Esc to make sure you're in command mode then type /string to search for string.

[didko6]

Thank you for answer, but unfortunately i didnt have success with that

[scottro]

I'm editing the post title to better reflect what it's about. Always try to choose meaningful subject lines.

To make sure we understand what you're asking.

You have a file, say it's called /etc/domains

You want to find the line scottro.net in that file

You hit escape, to be sure you were in command mode, You then typed

/scottro

and it appeared at the bottom of the file.

You then hit enter. The cursor didn't go to the line that said scottro.net. Did it go to anything similar, for example, maybe you also had scott.net and it went there, because you had mistyped and only typed scott, rather than scottro?