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How to search and replace text in VIM

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How to search and replace text in VIM

This post is short and sweet for now. I plan on adding more commands as I get more familiar with VIM.

Today I wanted to search and replace text in a JSON file using VIM.

Turns out it is rather easy.

:%s/"login"/"username"/g

In my situation I needed to include the quotes too and it handled it just fine. Go VIM.