Question

Which command is used to reverse the direction of repeating the search?

(a) n

(b) N

(c) nn

(d) NN

The question was asked by my college director while I was bunking the class.

This interesting question is from Commands for Searching, Replacing and Substituting in Vi Editor topic in section The Vi Editor of Unix

Answer 1

The correct choice is (b) N

For explanation: ‘N’ reverses the direction pursued by ‘n’, which means that we can use it to retrace our search path.