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From: rouben@math9.math.umbc.edu (Rouben Rostamian)
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Subject: Re: a question in vi
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Date: 15 Oct 90 20:59:01 GMT
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In article <12529@chaph.usc.edu> wkfu@alcor.usc.edu (Wilson Fu) writes:
>I want to do is to search a certain
>string, then delete those lines containing that string.

Here it is:

:g/string/d

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