carterp@cc.wbl.deakin.OZ.AU (Phil Carter) (11/28/90)
In Vi, how does one delete all lines containing a certain character string? Similarly, how does one delete all lines NOT containing a certain character string? -- Phil Carter Computing Services Centre, Academic Programmer Deakin University, Warrnambool campus carterp@deakin.oz.au Princes Highway, Tel: +61 55 618427 Warrnambool 3280, AUSTRALIA
rouben@math13.math.umbc.edu (Rouben Rostamian) (11/28/90)
In article <980@sol.deakin.OZ.AU> carterp@cc.wbl.deakin.OZ.AU (Phil Carter) writes: >In Vi, how does one delete all lines containing a certain character >string? > >Similarly, how does one delete all lines NOT containing a certain >character string? To delete all lines containing "pattern": :g/pattern/d To delete all lines not containing "pattern": :v/pattern/d -- Rouben Rostamian Telephone: (301) 455-2458 Department of Mathematics and Statistics e-mail: University of Maryland Baltimore County bitnet: rostamian@umbc Baltimore, MD 21228, U.S.A. internet: rostamian@umbc3.umbc.edu