On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:21 AM, skyworld <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> does vi has a fuction like "grep -v"? I always found I need to seach
> within the file with those lines which exclue specific strings.
> Thanks.
>
Searching in vim is done with regular expressions, so I believe this is
possible. For example, to search for lines with do not include "string"
/^\(\(.*string.*\)\@!.\)*$
See here:
http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Search_for_lines_not_containing_pattern_and_other_helpful_searches
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