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