VI/VIM Tricks

Add a string to the beginning of every line.

Replace <STRING> with your string

:%s!^!<STRING>!

Remove all lines that begin with 2010

:g/^2010.*$/d

Remove Blank Lines

:g/^$/d

Delete first 3 characters of each line, if followed by a blank

This one is really a sed command (outside of VI), but it seemed relevant.

sed ‘s/^… //g’ test.txt