regexp..prepending a line globally (Vi)

[Randal Schwartz]

In article <1772 at island.uu.net>, daniel at island (Daniel Smith - OPD Gang) writes:
| 
| 	All my years in vi and this one stumps me!  I wanted
| to make a real quick shell script, taken from the output
| of an ls-lR on uunet.  So, I get these lines:
| 
| /usr/spool/ftp/comp.sources.unix/volume22/nn6.4:
| part01.Z
| part02.Z
| part03.Z
| part04.Z
| .
| .
| . etc...
| 
| 	So far so good.  Now what I wanted to do is take the first
| line (with the path) and prepend it to every line with a regexp.

You can't do it in vi without resorting to some macro trickery.  (Of
course, the vi hackers will now come out of the woodwork to prove me
wrong... after all, this *is* Usenet. :-)

In Perl, it'd be:

perl -ne 'if (/^(.*):$/) { $pre = $1; } else { print "$pre/$_"; }'

Just another Perl hacker,
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