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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers please help Post 10752 by Kelam_Magnus on Tuesday 20th of November 2001 02:50:14 PM
Old 11-20-2001
You can also, do it this way as well while in the file.

vi filename
:g /oldword/s//newword/g

Only one space after the first "g" and no other spaces. This will replace every instance in the file.
If you leave off the last "/g" it will only replace the next instance of the word you want to change.




Smilie
 
ZGREP(1)						      General Commands Manual							  ZGREP(1)

NAME
zgrep - search possibly compressed files for a regular expression SYNOPSIS
zgrep [ grep_options ] [ -e ] pattern filename... DESCRIPTION
Zgrep is used to invoke the grep on compress'ed or gzip'ed files. All options specified are passed directly to grep. If no file is speci- fied, then the standard input is decompressed if necessary and fed to grep. Otherwise the given files are uncompressed if necessary and fed to grep. If zgrep is invoked as zegrep or zfgrep then egrep or fgrep is used instead of grep. If the GREP environment variable is set, zgrep uses it as the grep program to be invoked. For example: for sh: GREP=fgrep zgrep string files for csh: (setenv GREP fgrep; zgrep string files) AUTHOR
Charles Levert (charles@comm.polymtl.ca) SEE ALSO
grep(1), egrep(1), fgrep(1), zdiff(1), zmore(1), znew(1), zforce(1), gzip(1), gzexe(1) ZGREP(1)
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