In vim I can delete all lines that contain the word "price" with this
:g /price/d
How can I delete all lines that do NOT contain the word "price"?
Ciro Santilli OurBigBook.com
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asked Mar 31, 2011 at 23:00
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You can use
:g!/price/d
to delete every line that doesn't contain "price"
As answered below, g! is an alias to v. this is equivalent to
:v/price/d
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%is a special range in this context that means the whole file. See:help cmdline-ranges.– HeptiteOct 30, 2012 at 18:05 -
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You can also use:
:v/price/d
to delete lines.
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gis for "global" andvfor "inverse" (if you believe what you read on vim.famdom).– ruffinApr 11, 2019 at 1:08 -
%!grep "price"
is another option that can be considerably faster than :v for large files.
Tested on Vim 7.4, Ubuntu 14.04, 1M line log file.
Lines that contain word: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1725265/how-can-i-delete-all-lines-that-do-not-begin-with-certain-characters/42714334#42714334
answered Mar 10, 2017 at 9:02
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