Re: Select entire line based on tag, then export only those lines of text

Greg Nevius wrote:
> Hello everyone! First off, let me say that I am a designer, and don't have the higher level of thinking required to do what I would like to accomplish. That being said, if anyone could help me, I would be so, so grateful and appreciative!
>
> Here's what I've got - a tab delimited text file ~1.6GB. It's a huge file.
>
> Step 1:
> What I need to do is search out anything that has the word "ambulance" and copy the entire line in VIM. Here's a example of l entry:
>
> 1003006180 MEDICWEST AMBULANCE, INC. O 9 W DELHI AVE NORTH LAS VEGAS 890327836 NV US Ambulance Service Supplier Y F A0425 Ground mileage 73737.3 7873 12047 7.0418345939 0.8138691894 26.055025476 8.2428463203 5.5882732348 1.3276220145
>
> There are thousands of entries in the text file, so to manually search through is impossible.
>
> Step 2:
> I then need to extract these entries that contain "ambulance" (the entire line)and save all of them to another text file. From there, I can import into Excel.
>
> I had considered going the MySQL route, but that's shaky for me, being a pixel pusher :)
>
> Is this something that I can easily do in VIM? It seems like it's built for that.
>
> Once again, thank you very much for any time or assistance you may be able to provide!
>

vim yourtabdelimitedfile
:w ambulance-only-file
:e ambulance-only-file
:v/\c\<ambulance\>/d
:wq

That should do it (untested, I'm afraid).

Regards,
Chip Campbell

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