VI Wisdom

From: Shaw M. (meadsh@ECE.ORST.EDU)
Date: 03/28/98


I need some help editing mass quantities of text files and I'm sure that
VI can do it.  What I need to do is add a line into every mob entry, and
I have over 100 mob files and I really dont want to do it by hand.  Here
is an example of what I am looking to do:

I need to add a line between the two lines formatted like this:

26 18 -1 5d10+550 4d6+3
2 155000

the first line is something like <level> <THAC0> <AC> <Hits>
<BareHandDam> anyways I need to add a line between those two like this:

26 18 -1 5d10+550 4d6+3
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0                        <-  This exact line added to
every mob
2 155000

I don't know much about VI, but I do know it is very powerful and can
most likely do this.  Can any of you VI experts teach me a command that
will do this?

Also, this isn't that big of a deal, but I need to do this to about 100
mob files and it would be nice to not have to go through each file...
maybe a script?

Thanks for your help!
-Shaw


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