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by **Trent Rive** » Tue, 09 Mar 2004 12:43:42

Usig vi as my editor, i want to search for all occurences a text
string and in those lines where the text string is found i want to
replace another different string in that line with a new string.

Does anybody know how to do this in vi???

by **William Par** » Tue, 09 Mar 2004 15:11:12

> Usig vi as my editor, i want to search for all occurences a text
> string and in those lines where the text string is found i want to
> replace another different string in that line with a new string.

> Does anybody know how to do this in vi???

Hint:
:g/abc/s/xyz/123/

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by **Dave Beye** » Tue, 09 Mar 2004 14:42:09

Quote:> Using vi as my editor, i want to search for all occurences a text
> string and in those lines where the text string is found i want to
> replace another different string in that line with a new string.

> Does anybody know how to do this in vi???

You will find helpful answers to this and other editor,
vi related questions in comp.editors. There you will also find
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) that address similar issues.

Open the file using vi

type a : to put you in ex mode -- you will see a : at
the very left-bottom of the screen.

type

g/search_string/s/old_string/new_string/g

g - in every line

/search_string/ - search for this string

s - substitute

/old_string/ - string to replace, may be the same or
different from search string

/new_string/ - replacement string, new text

g - do this for all occurrances of old_string in line

by **rakesh shar** » Tue, 09 Mar 2004 16:32:06

> Usig vi as my editor, i want to search for all occurences a text
> string and in those lines where the text string is found i want to
> replace another different string in that line with a new string.

> Does anybody know how to do this in vi???

at the : prompt in vi do this

:g/string1/s/string2/new_string/

by **ajay** » Tue, 09 Mar 2004 18:31:55

:s/old_string/new_string/g

isn't simple and nice ?

> > Using vi as my editor, i want to search for all occurences a text
> > string and in those lines where the text string is found i want to
> > replace another different string in that line with a new string.

> > Does anybody know how to do this in vi???

> You will find helpful answers to this and other editor,
> vi related questions in comp.editors. There you will also find
> Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) that address similar issues.

> Open the file using vi

> type a : to put you in ex mode -- you will see a : at
> the very left-bottom of the screen.

> type

> g/search_string/s/old_string/new_string/g

> g - in every line

> /search_string/ - search for this string

> s - substitute

> /old_string/ - string to replace, may be the same or
> different from search string

> /new_string/ - replacement string, new text

> g - do this for all occurrances of old_string in line

by **Birger Blix** » Sat, 13 Mar 2004 03:38:51

Quote:> :s/old_string/new_string/g

> isn't simple and nice ?

But wrong, and top posted.

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