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[Sanjiv Sharma_1]

Hi,

I have a text file "abc" in which I want to substitute all the "/users/tiger" to "/rain/blue/violet"

In the file abc "/users/tiger" exists about 100 times.

Thanks,
Raje.

[Sebastian Galeski_1 · Accepted solution]

Hi
%s;/users/tiger;/rain/blue/violet;g

regards seba

[Michael Tully]

Hi Raje,

To change all occurances of /users/tiger to /rain/blue/violet.

vi the file and then:

:1,$s/\/users\/tiger/\/rain\/blue\/violet/g

HTH
Michael

[Sebastian Galeski_1]

Of course use this command in vi

[Michael Tully]

Or using sed from the command line

cat abc | sed 's/\users\/tiger/\rain\/blue\/violet/g' >abc.1

[Robin Wakefield]

Hi Raje,

Using perl:

perl -pi -e 's+/users/tiger+/rain/blue/violet+g' filename

Rgds, Robin

[Justo Exposito]

Hi Raje,

As Procura recommend is better not to use cat:
sed 's/\users\/tiger/\rain\/blue\/violet/g' abc >abc.1

If you want to check the changes you can use grep:

grep "\/users\/tiger" abc

Regards,

Justo.

[Trond Haugen]

My suggestion is only slightly different from Michaels:

:g/\/users\/tiger/s//\/rain\/blue\/violet/g

Regards,
Trond

[harry d brown jr]

1,s_/users/tiger_/rain/blue/violet_g9999


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harry

[Judy Traynor]

Here is the syntax for search/replace. (there are already a lot of winners here.
)

:g/search-string/s//replace-string/ global search and replace

[harry d brown jr]

Monica,

I was pointing out that the separator does not have to be a slash (/), and that an underscore (_) can easily be used (as any other character also). The point being that too many forward and backward slashes is just insanely crazy.

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harry