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Replacing a word

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Post May 26th, 2006, 5:50 am

Hi,

Good Morning,

I am new to Linux/Unix environment. Can any one tell me, how can I replace the number of occurances of a 'WORD' with another Word in a file after opening with VI Editor.

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Post May 26th, 2006, 5:50 am

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Post May 26th, 2006, 7:43 am

1,$ s/word1/new_word/g
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