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in the vi mode, type : then the below line. If you have multiple lines with usr/home which needs to be changed, use g at the end else just skip it.
this should work fine.
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when you use / as delimiter then you have to properly escape the / that occurs in your pattern, or else use some other delimiter other than /.


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put cursor on the line you want to change and type



:%s=/home/user1/bin/=/root/bin

## if you want to globally change
:%s=/home/user1/bin/=/root/bin=g

$
$ X="/home/user1/bin/"
$
$ echo $X
/home/user1/bin/
$
$ echo $X | sed -e 's/\/home\/user1/\/root/' -e 's/\/$//'
/root/bin
$
$


tyler_durden

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