Which command is used to replace many characters?

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Which command is used to replace many characters?..

Answer / amita

change command can be used to change a word/line.

cw change word forward
cb change word backward
c$ change from cursor to end of line
cL change from current line to and of screen
cG change from current line to and of file

or if you want to replace all occurence of some specific
character

:%s/oldText/newText/g

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Which command is used to replace many characters?..

Answer / gourab ranjan seth

press esc, then R to replace multiple characters

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Which command is used to replace many characters?..

Answer / ali ahsan

Try

:%s/<Character1>/blah/cge | %s/<character2>/222/cge
and so on.

OR if you have to replace many charcters with single charcter you can try as mentioned below

:%s/<Character1|character2|.....>/blah/cge

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Which command is used to replace many characters?..

Answer / gopal

By pressing "Esc"+i key.

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