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

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:g/pattern/d to delete lines matching pattern
:g!/pattern/d to delete lines not matching pattern so just do
:g!/\cambulance/d and then :w newfile to save the lines containing ambulance to newfile. The \c is for matching case insensitive.


Mart


On April 11, 2014 4:37:02 PM CEST, Greg Nevius <gnevius@gmail.com> 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!
>
>Cheers, G
>
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