On 2014-04-13 01:17, John Little wrote:
> No-one has spoken up to state the obvious, and the OP did say "in
> vim", but this task is obviously better done with grep, or a
> grep-like tool. I'm guessing the OP is on Windows, and if so, IIRC
> there's a "findstr" command available. Click Start->Run and enter
> "cmd", then "help findstr" to see how to use it. 
> 
> (Apologies if I've misunderstood and have been too simplistic.) 

I totally forgot about that, and John is right.  You'd want to do
something like

  c:\temp> findstr /i "ambulance" my_file.txt > output.txt

(the "/i" switch ignores case).  It won't snag any headers you might
want, but hopefully it won't be too painful to add those back in.

-tim


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