Search and Repalce a particular word in VI Editor(UNIX)

While using VI editor in UNIX many of us come across a need to Replace a particular word with another word.
Say our file containing a text information as follows
"Ramu and giri are really nice friends. Both of them work in the same office. Ramu working as SWE and giri working as Accountant"
In the above text information if we want to replace all instances of the word Ramu with Krishna the following steps will help
Press Esc
give :
type like this

%s/Ramu/Krishna/g
or
1,$s/Ramu/Krishna/g

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Wednesday, September 10, 2008 // Labels: UNIX // 1 comments //

1 comments to "Search and Repalce a particular word in VI Editor(UNIX)"

14 April 2009 at 06:27
Unknown says:

for confirming the replace of the word use 'c' suck as

%/xyz/abc/gc

This will ask for ur confirmation before replacing the pattern xyz with abc.