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Phillip Lu (not verified) on Mon, 01/12/2009 - 18:55

I have a file about 500 MB with 391 character long for each line.

I would like to replace positions 11 - 36 with "2008-06-24-00.00.00.000 " in vim.

How can I do it ?

kamal on Sun, 01/25/2009 - 12:48

Maybe sed is a better tool for that. The largest file I've try with vim was 70MB text file.

http://unstableme.blogspot.com/2008/01/substitute-character-by-position-...