Comments on: Using vi to replace a string in multiple files

By: Niall

Niall — Tue, 16 Sep 2014 18:29:58 +0000

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thanks — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 05:56:11 +0000

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Himanshu — Thu, 24 May 2012 08:37:55 +0000

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Than you very much — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 13:49:01 +0000

Thanx a lot, it helped me too.

I have a comment, for relatively small number of replacements, prompting for replace could also be useful.

:argdo %s/search_string/replace_string/gc | wq

with an additional ‘c’ for ‘confirmation’

Thanks again

Jens — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:35:50 +0000

Thanks for this hint, you saved me a bunch of work with that.

admin — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:43:30 +0000

Must have been thinking about food when typing it
Cheers

mike — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 17:24:46 +0000

it’s caret, not carrot!