Global search & replace in Vim

[Matthew Hill]

:%s/string1/string2/g

Will work.

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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