sed 's/\<amaze\>/delight/g' file

How to replace the exact word in vi editor??
suppose a file contains words like amaze,amazed,amazement in
some of the line.But i want to replace only 'amaze' with
delight but don't wanna replace amazed or amazement.
thanks

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Answer Posted / shilpi gupta

sed 's/\<amaze\>/delight/g' file_name

or

In Vi editor..you can use

:%s/\<amaze\>/delight/g

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