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Delete Lines That Match A Pattern

vim Written October 16, 2015

The :g command can be used to execute an Ex command over the entire buffer for all lines that match a given pattern. By choosing d (delete) as the Ex command, all lines that match the given pattern will be deleted. For instance, if I want to remove all lines that contain binding.pry, I can execute the following command:

:g/binding\.pry/d

See :h :g for more details.

h/t Chris Erin

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