Posts tagged vi

Posted 2 years ago

Vi: Search/Replace/Delete

Some shortcuts for search/replace/delete in vi:

Search for a string: /<string>

Search for string in current cursor position: *

Repeat search: n[next]/N[previous]

Highlight search: :set hlsearch

Replace every occurrence in file: :%s/old/new/g

Delete every line matching a pattern: :g/pattern/d

Delete every line not matching a pattern: :v/pattern/d