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Vim: delete lines that don’t match pattern

Ex command :v to the rescue!

:v/pattern/d

Using :g! will give you the same result as using :v.
:g finds lines that do match a pattern.

I had a large list of locations. I wanted to keep only the locations containing hyphens and delete the rest so I used this: :v/-/d

:v – find lines not matching your pattern
d – delete matches


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2 Comments

  1. Dan Herbert

    Nice!

    I always forget about that one. I usually do (for your scenario with hyphens):
    :%!grep -v –

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