Re: does vi has a funtion like "grep -v"?

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:21 AM, skyworld <chenyong20000@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

does vi has a fuction like "grep -v"? I always found I need to seach
within the file with those lines which exclue specific strings.
Thanks.

Searching in vim is done with regular expressions, so I believe this is possible.  For example, to search for lines with do not include "string"

    /^\(\(.*string.*\)\@!.\)*$

See here:

http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Search_for_lines_not_containing_pattern_and_other_helpful_searches

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