Hi, jas01 wrote: > I have a huge file where I need to delete all lines except for a few I need. > I'm trying to do this in a single command. > > I know that: > > :v/Text/d > > will delete all lines except for ones containing 'Text.' I have no idea how > to put multiple strings so the command deletes everything except for 'Text' > and 'Text2' and 'Text3'.
use \| in the search pattern :v/Text\|Text2\|Text3/d See :help /\| for more information. Regards, Jürgen -- Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. (Calvin)
