Greg Nevius wrote:
Hello everyone! First off, let me say that I am a designer, and don't have the
higher level of thinking required to do what I would like to accomplish. That
being said, if anyone could help me, I would be so, so grateful and
appreciative!
Here's what I've got - a tab delimited text file ~1.6GB. It's a huge file.
Step 1:
What I need to do is search out anything that has the word "ambulance" and copy
the entire line in VIM. Here's a example of l entry:
1003006180 MEDICWEST AMBULANCE, INC.
O 9 W DELHI AVE NORTH LAS VEGAS 890327836 NV US
Ambulance Service Supplier Y F A0425 Ground mileage 73737.3
7873 12047 7.0418345939 0.8138691894 26.055025476 8.2428463203
5.5882732348 1.3276220145
There are thousands of entries in the text file, so to manually search through
is impossible.
Step 2:
I then need to extract these entries that contain "ambulance" (the entire
line)and save all of them to another text file. From there, I can import into Excel.
I had considered going the MySQL route, but that's shaky for me, being a pixel
pusher :)
Is this something that I can easily do in VIM? It seems like it's built for
that.
Once again, thank you very much for any time or assistance you may be able to
provide!
vim yourtabdelimitedfile
:w ambulance-only-file
:e ambulance-only-file
:v/\c\<ambulance\>/d
:wq
That should do it (untested, I'm afraid).
Regards,
Chip Campbell
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