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

Why not just use external grep in vim if that's what you want?
:[range]!grep -v



On Jan 25, 2013, at 7:20 AM, Catalin Ciurea <catalin.ciurea@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Friday, January 25, 2013 11:21:37 AM UTC+2, skyworld wrote:
>> Hi,
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>> does vi has a fuction like "grep -v"? I always found I need to seach
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>> within the file with those lines which exclue specific strings.
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>> Thanks.
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>> regards
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> See the :grep command (:he :grep) in Vim.
> This command uses the 'grepprg' option to check what program to call. By default is 'grep -n'(See :he 'grepprg')
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> You can always do something like:
> set grepprg+=-v
> :grep foo *
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> Check :vimgrep command also. It uses Vim regular expressions and an internal search engine. (Slower but if you are familiar with Vim re, it's a good option)
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