Global search & replace in Vim

[Cory Spitz]

:g/string1/s//string2

should work.

On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Reza Beha wrote:

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> Greetings, friends.
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>    I've been fruitlessly seeking a method for replacing every instance of a string in Vim, without needing to know a file length or row range.  The best I've come up with so far is:
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> :s/string1/string2/g xxx
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>   Where 'xxx' is the length of the file (like 317 lines, for instance).  What is the proper way to accomplish this?  Thanks in advance.
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> Migrating from VMS to Linux,
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>                Reza
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