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Commands for Searching, Replacing, and Substituting in Vi Editor MCQS

1. : For substitution command, which command do we use?

(A) n


(B) s


(C) N


(D) S



2. : To replace ‘professor’ with ‘director’ throughout the whole file, which command do we use?

(A) 1,$s/professor/director/g and %s/professor/director/g


(B) %s/professor/director/g


(C) 1,$s/professor/director


(D) 1,$s/professor/director/g



3. : For performing substitution on a file, what is the correct syntax?

(A) :address


(B) :address/target_pattern source_pattern/flag


(C) :address/flag


(D) :address/source_pattern/target_pattern/flag



4. : For searching a pattern in vi, which symbol is used?

(A) /


(B) / and ?


(C) %


(D) ?



5. : For interactive substitution, which flag do we use?

(A) g


(B) gc


(C) G


(D) cg



6. : For repeating the search in the same direction, which command do we use?

(A) NN


(B) N


(C) nn


(D) n



7. : For deleting all the instances of the string ‘manager’ in file003, which command do we use?

(A) %s/manager/ /


(B) %s/manager/director/g


(C) 1,$s/professor/director


(D) 1,$s/manager/ /g



8. : The invalid command is

(A) /printf


(B) :1,%/file01/file02/g


(C) :%/abd/mash/wc


(D) ?scanf



9. : What searches for the first instance of a pattern in the forward direction?

(A) &


(B) %


(C) /


(D) ?



10. : What searches for the first instance of a pattern in the backward direction?

(A) ?


(B) %


(C) &


(D) /



11. : To reverse the direction of repeating the search, which command do we use?

(A) n


(B) nn


(C) N


(D) NN



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