problem removing a word from a file in vi

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

lets say i have a file named ex1 which contain an essay.
(a) delete the word "benefit" from the file
(b) delete the last 6 characters on each line

for the first problem i entered :g/benefit/d but it deletes the whole line

please help

2

Hope this is not homework; there are rules for that!

:1,$s/\<benefit\>//g
:1,$s/.\{6\}$//
3

Thank you DGPickett

4

I usually do surgery with sed from one file to another, so mistakes are not an issue. Interactive vi's : is ex, a line editor, and sed is streaming ex, sorta, with much less overhead.

   
sed '
    s/\<benefit\>//g
    s/.\{6\}$//
 ' file_in >file_out