On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 18:09, Reid Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 08:24 -0800, Jason wrote: >> I have a file that contains a bunch of lines with only the word "foo" >> on it. >> >> I want go through the entire file and remove the lines with the words >> "foo". Not just remove the word, but the entire line. >> >> How is this done in vim? >> >> I tried :%s/foo//g >> >> but it left the line >> >> thank you! >> >> > > > $ grep -v foo thefile > newfile >
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