How do you perform a command on all results of a search in Vim?

Question

Ideally, it'd be a variation of the following:

:/somesearchstring/ norm! dd

The above searches for a string and performs a normal mode command (in this case, deleting the line). The problem is, this only performs the command on the first occurrence of the search. How do you perform an arbitrary command on the results of a search?

Answer 1

Use :g like so:

:g/somesearchstring/norm! dd

or

:g/somesearchstring/d

See

:h :g