Re: [h-e-w] Removing lines that match a pattern

[Peter Brown]

if you have cygwin-like tools installed, you can do

C-u M-| grep <insert your regexp here>

i.e., shell commmand (grep) on region, to keep lines matching the regexp

...use grep -v to remove matching lines

PB>>

On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Moore, Mathew L wrote:

> I would like to remove the lines of a (very long) file that start with a
> specific pattern.  Do I need to write a lisp function, or does anyone know a
> way to do it with regexp?
>
> I've tried
>
>   Replace regexp: SOME HEADER\(.*\) with:
>
> (just hitting RET after the with), but this only removes the text of the
> line, not the line itself.
>
> Unfortunately, I don't know Emacs Lisp, but maybe this is a good time to
> start learning?
>
> Thanks for all your help,
> --Matt
>

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