Hi Chris!

Generally:
:g/pattern/d

Specific for you (delete all line ending with '.' char):
:g/\.$/d


Adam



2011/3/10 Chris Hudson <[email protected]>:
> Hi, I have a question.  I have a very big directory/subdirectory listing
> that has been outputted to a file.
> I would like to delete all the dot ( . ) and dot-dot ( .. ) directories, so
> that I just have a listing of the "real" directories.
>
> So I want to delete all lines that look like this:
>
>
> drwxrwx--- 2 odevora dba 4096 Feb 21 15:41 .
>
> drwxrwx--- 4 odevora dba 4096 Oct 2 2009 ..
>
>
>
>  And leave all the other lines, such as this:
>
>
> drwxrwx--- 2 odevora dba 4096 Feb 21 15:41 bin
>
> drwxrwx--- 2 odevora dba 110592 Mar 8 21:07 log
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
>
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