Here is an example of find and replace with VI, this will replace every instance of the “findthistext” string in the file with “replacewithtext”. Neat saves lots of typing!
:%s/findthistext/replacewithtext/g
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Vi Find and Replace Example
Friday, July 24th, 2009VI – Search and Replace with a pathname
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009Find and replace with VI on a pathname is a bit tricky you ned to use escape characters.
In this case /bin/mail should be replaced with /usr/bin/mail
The command below would do it:
:%s/\/bin\/mail/\/usr\/bin\/mail/g