12 Simple methods to handle vi editor commands.

10. Find & replace

With this type of vi editor commands we can find & replace the contents of the file.

• :1,$ s/<old>/<new>/g ===> replace the character or word in the whole file

where 1 denotes first line & $ denotes last line

• :% s/<old>/<new>/g ===> Same as above
• :1,. s/<old>/<new>/g ===> replace the character or word between the lines

where 1 denotes first line & . denotes current cursor position

• :@,. s/<old>/<new>/g ===> replace the character or word between the lines

where @ denotes line number & . denotes current cursor position

• eg.
• :3,. s/new/new1/g    ===> will replace all the word “new”with “new1″between the lines 3rd till current cursor position

• :.,$ s/<old>/<new>/g ===> replace the character or word between the lines

where. denotes current cursor position & $ denotes last line

• :.,@ s/<old>/<new>/g ===> replace the character or word between the lines

where. denotes current cursor position & @ denotes line number

• :@,@ s/<old>/<new>/g ===> replace the character or word between the lines

where @ denotes line number