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tinco on March 30, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic”

It's how you do a text replacement in VIM, I believe it's s for substitute, /../ for the regular expression, and g for global, to substitute multiple instances.

roland35 on March 31, 2021 [–]

Don't forget the % if you are using vim, to make sure you replace on all lines :)

:%s/ubiquity/sonos/g

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