Global search & replace in Vim

[Cory Spitz]

Oops, the below will only change one instance per line (in vi).
dpk's solution works much better.
Thanks dpk.
-Cory

On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Cory Spitz wrote:

> :g/string1/s//string2
>
> should work.
>
> On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Reza Beha wrote:
>
> >
> > Greetings, friends.
> >
> >    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:
> >
> > :s/string1/string2/g xxx
> >
> >   Where 'xxx' is the length of the file (like 317 lines, for instance).  What is the proper way to accomplish this?  Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Migrating from VMS to Linux,
> >
> >                Reza
> >
> >
> >
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