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RE: help in vi

Try this
:g/[pattern]/d

--
Mihir

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Saravanan Subbiah [mailto:saravanan.subbiah@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 17:07
> To: linux-india-programmers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [LIP] help in vi
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> how do I delete a set of lines which matches some regular 
> expression in
> vi ???
> 
> :%d/reg.expression/
> 
> doesn't seem to work !
> 
> I know the following works, but it is cumbersome.
> 
> :!grep -v "reg.expression" % > tmp.file
> 
> 
> -Saravanan