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From: ronald@atcmp.nl (Ronald Pikkert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: a question in vi
Message-ID: <673@atcmpe.atcmp.nl>
Date: 16 Oct 90 19:36:50 GMT
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wkfu@alcor.usc.edu (Wilson Fu):
> Does anyone know how to delete lines containing a certain
       ^^^^^^
> string in a file?

You should after reading the vi/ex manual but try:

:g/string/d


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