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Is there any way to replace a string with another in a file using "vi" or "vim" editor?

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I have a large file which has "some string"so many times, i want it to be replaced with "other string" at all places, using vi or vim editor?
Is there any way to do that?

posted May 13, 2016 by anonymous

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Use below syntax

:%s/somestring/otherstring/g

answer May 13, 2016 by Bhaskar Kalaria
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vi (vim) is not difficult to learn, the vi editor is well known and used for both writing code and editing config files.

answer May 14, 2016 by Kapil Kumar
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Use below syntacx to replace the string with another string in VIM Editor

:%s///gc

"C" it will ask for confrimation whether to replace or not.
"g" used to replace.

answer May 16, 2016 by Manohar Venkat.ch
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