CentOS Linux Server Guide

Vi Editor - Replace words, sentences , string using keyboard

Before performing any search operation, you must first make sure that you are in command mode.

Keyboard Operation

:s/string1/string2/g replace all string1 to string2 within the current line

:%s/string1/string2/g replace all string1 to string2 within the entire file

Example

In the following example, we search and replace all word matched 'error' with new string 'normal'

:%s/error/normal/g

In the following example, we search and replace all 'error' with new string 'normal' with 30th to 40th lines

:30,40/error/normal/g

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