A tutorial on things that you could do with sed on vim.
- Search and replace pattern
- Replace one pattern in a given line
Take the cursor to the desired line, press ESC and then colon sign and fire the following command
:s/OLD/NEW
- Replace all pattern in a given line
Take the cursor to the desired line, press ESC and then colon sign and fire the following command
:s/OLD/NEW/g
- Replace all pattern withn a given range of lines
Press ESC, colon sign, give range of line and then sed command. LINE_START is start line while LINE_END is end line between which all occurances of OLD will be replaced by NEW
:LINE_START,LINE_END s/OLD/NEW/g
- Replace all pattern in the file
Press ESC, colon, line range and then sed commnad. 1,$ indicated first line and last line of the file
:1,$ s/OLD/NEW/g
