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Feature #772

Using Vi to Remove Entire Lines Beginning With a Specific Character

Added by Daniel Curtis almost 9 years ago. Updated almost 9 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Daniel Curtis
Category:
Shell Scripts
Target version:
*nix
Start date:
03/08/2016
Due date:
% Done:

100%

Estimated time:
0.10 h
Spent time:
0.50 h

Description

One common task I do is strip down commented configuration files, and rather than spend a lot of time locating and deleting individual line I find vi to be useful for finding and deleting these lines.

  • Open the file to be edited:
    vi somefile.txt
    • To remove all lines beginning with ; (comment character for PHP config file)
      :g/^;/d

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#1

Updated by Daniel Curtis almost 9 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Resolved
  • % Done changed from 0 to 100
#2

Updated by Daniel Curtis almost 9 years ago

  • Status changed from Resolved to Closed

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