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Yusuboy

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Hi Guys,

Can you help me with the vi cammand that can find and replace one word with another in a file.

Thanks,
Yus.
 
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This command will change all occurrences of 'water' into 'wine':

[tt]:%s/water/wine/g[/tt]

Annihilannic.
 
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:g/abc/s//xyz/g

will replace every abc with xyz
 
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...and if you want to make changes which include the / character (pathnames for example) you can use another delimiter as in :g!/path/to/change!s!!/new/path!g
 
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