This guide will take you through how to delete lines matching specific pattern in a file using VIM. Linux system admins work with files day in day out. At some point, you may want just to delete lines matching a specific pattern or a string in a file. There are quite a number of tools out there that you can use to achieve the same. However, this we are going to focus on using VIM.<\/p>\n
In order to delete lines matching a pattern in a file using To remove lines that contains the string Similarly, to delete multiple lines with multiple patterns, you can use;<\/p>\n This will delete all lines containing the specified keywords.<\/p>\n To delete empty lines or lines with white spaces ( To delete all the lines that do not contain a specific pattern. For example to delete all the lines that do not contain the string To delete all the lines that do not contain more than one string for example that do not contain the strings You can also use That is all about how to delete lines matching specific pattern in a file using VIM. If you have other suggestions, be sure to drop a comment. Thank you.<\/p>\n Are you looking at deleting lines matching specific patterns or keyword in a file using SED? See our article by following the link below;<\/p>\nvim<\/code> editor, you can use ex<\/code> command, g<\/code> in combination with d<\/code> command.<\/p>\namos<\/code>, in vim command mode, type the command below and press Enter.<\/p>\n:g\/amos\/d<\/code><\/pre>\n
:g\/amos\\|mibey\/d<\/code><\/pre>\n
s<\/code>);<\/p>\n:g\/^\\s*$\/d\nor\n:g\/^$\/d<\/code><\/pre>\n
amos<\/code><\/p>\n:g!\/amos\/d<\/code><\/pre>\n
amos<\/code> or mibey<\/code>.<\/p>\n:g!\/amos\\|mibey\/d<\/code><\/pre>\n
v<\/code> instead of g!<\/code>.<\/p>\n:v\/amos\\|mibey\/d<\/code><\/pre>\n