[vox-tech] serendipity with vim

[Issac Trotts]

:%!grep -v 'your pattern here'

On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 07:44:43AM -0800, Ken Bloom wrote:
> In sed, one can delete every line matching a pattern with the command
> "/pattern/d". In vi, using the analagous command ":/pattern/d" only deletes 
> the first line that matches the pattern. How do you delete all the lines  
> that match the pattern? ":g/pattern/d"   (:g[lobal] lets you apply an ex  
> command to every line matching a pattern)

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