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How can you remove given lines efficiently in Vim?

I want to remove all lines which match this

:g!/div/

I unsuccessfully ran:

:g!/div/s/^*//g
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All I know is that I use the 'dd' command to remove a line – Joe Philllips Aug 20 '09 at 23:10
Thank you for your answers! – Masi Aug 21 '09 at 3:35
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Maybe:

:g!/div/d
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up vote 6 down vote 
:g!/div/d

Works just fine to do what you want.

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Vim certainly isn't only used on servers. Potentially anyone who does any programming could benefit from this question. I certainly did, and I'm not affiliated at all with servers in my work. – Thr4wn Aug 20 '09 at 23:27
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@thr4wn: superuser isn't the site for servers, that's serverfault. – John Millikin Aug 20 '09 at 23:28
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I would say this still belongs on stackoverflow, as vim is often used as an IDE, and IDE questions are eligible for stackoverflow. – rampion Aug 21 '09 at 2:06
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up vote 1 down vote 
:V/div/d

In case of larger files, it might be faster to:

:%!grep div
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