Changing Long strings

Have you faced a situation where the string that you wish to change
does not fit the command line? If the answer is Yes then you may be
interested in the following tip

My command line looks like below

COMMAND ==> ____________________________________________________


and I have to execute the following command

CHANGE A_VERY_VERY_VERY_VERY_LONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNG_STRING TO A_NEW_STRING

The above command is too big for the above command line.

But where there is a will there is a way. The above can be achieved in the following manner.


Step 1:

First find the long string by using the following command

F A_VERY_VERY_VERY_VERY_LONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNG_STRING

Step2:

and after executing the command, the string found is captured in
*, so all you need to do is now change * to new string


C * A_NEW_STRING