Search number of words in vi editor at a time
 

hi
is it possible that i can search number of words with single command and replace them or delete them in vi editor?
or is there any code or something like that?

thanks in advance

I'm not sure I completely understand the question. Can you give a more specific example of what you want to do?

here is the example:
i have 3 words, eg cat, dog and hen.
I want to search these words in the file animals.txt,
I open the file vi animals.txt.
and now i want to search these 3 animals using single command or code and delete them in this file.

Type:

and Enter

thanks!
this works
but can you tell me that after selecting how can i delete this, or replace it with in same command.

To delete the lines containing those patterns:

:global/dog\|cat\|hen/d

To substitute those words globally for another word:

:global/dog\|cat\|hen/s//duck/g