Copy material to other objects?

apologies as i’m sure this answer is somewhere but i’m SUPER new to blender and not exactly sure what to search for.

lets say i have 2 objects in my scene and each has a ‘brick’ material. If i get the material of one of the brick materials setup, i want to REPLACE the other objects ‘brick’ material with the one i just created. i’ve tried this a few times and all i get is something like

brick.001

i LOVE the shader editor but i’m still clueless as how i ‘replace’ materials on other objects with materials i’ve already created.

again, REALLY appreciate info on this as it’s been driving me nuts and i figured it’s about time i asked.

you can either press command+L to make links, or in the materials editor you can select the material from the drop down menu.

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