Archive for September 2007
Vim: Delete every line in the file that does not match a pattern
I realized the power of :g much later than many other commands in vim and I think this one has been there even in vi for a long time.
Here is a great tip that covers the virtues of :g in vim:
The reason I ended up with this tip was that I needed to find a simple command that would delete all lines matching a pattern.
I knew how to delete all lines that matched a pattern.
:g/pattern/d
but I was looking for the inverse and I found it :g’s cousin :v in the above tip as a user comment.
:v/pattern/d
did the job very well. Once again vim saved the day. 
*nix: nslookup to resolve an IP to host name
nslookup is useful to resolve an ip address to a host name in the linux/unix environment.
nslookup – query Internet name servers interactively
