[Question] How to remove all lines that contain certain text in VI

[beyonddc]

[Question] How to remove all lines that contain certain text in VI?

For example I've the following text.



Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday


I want to remove all line that contains the word "Monday". The end result should look like this. Of course I can do a search and then hit "dd" on each line but when I've a big document, this will be very painful.



Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday


Thanks!!!

[LocutusOfBorg]

try something like

:g/^Monday/d

[pete_1967]

Vim uses regular expressions in its search (and replace), below does what you are trying to do:


:%s/^Monday.*\n//g


Read more about regular expressions in Vim: http://larc.ee.nthu.edu.tw/~cthuang/vim/files/vim-regex/vim-regex.htm