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VIM Text Substitution trick

vim string_replacement

Published on 15 Apr 2020

Starting string

mv app/controllers/teams_controller.rb

VIM String Substitution

:%s/\(app.*\)team\(.*$\)/\1team\2 \1organisation\2/gc

Result

mv app/controllers/teams_controller.rb app/controllers/organisations_controller.rb