How to perform Find and Replace using vim Editor

vim is the much-loved text editor when it comes to the command line or the terminal, but it has a learning curve when it comes to performing normal day-to-day operations like find and replace.

Let us take a look at various ways to perform find and replace operation using the:s substitution command,

Find and Replace 1st occurrence in a Line

:/s/sample/example

Find and Replace all occurrences of in a Line

:/s/line/line1/s

Find and Replace All occurrences of in a File

:%s/Say/Hello

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