>From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >superfish >Sent: Tuesday, 4 October 2011 05:07 >To: [email protected] >Subject: How to match lines containing patternA but not containing patternB? > >Facing with a data file which contains more than 7 million lines, I need to >delete all >lines containing <patternA> but not containing <patternB>. >So far the only way I can think of is kind messy, something like this: > >:g/<patternB>/s/<patternA>/<patternC>/ >:g/<patternA>/d >:%s/<patternC>/<patternA>/ > >But I really like to know how this can be done in a better way, like a single >global >replacement command or something. That seems to cover it, but you can sometimes use a screwdriver instead of pliers: faster, too. If you have Linux or Cygwin GNU tools, you can emulate what you did above, and perhaps put them into a bash script for later use. The bash command using grep & sed is, all on one line:
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