| User: brucelee -- 2011-11-17 << 887 889 >> |
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| Type: Advanced search and replace |
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| Description: |
| File A has many words, file B has many lines that contain words from file A, how to delete these lines from file B? I don't want the lines in file B. |
| Input Sample: |
| File A: word1 word2 word3 ... File B: -----word1---- aaaaaaaaaa word2------ ---word3----- bbbbbbbbb ......... |
| Output Sample: |
| aaaaaaaaaa bbbbbbbbb ....... |
| Answer: |
| Hint: You need to Download and install "Replace Pioneer" on windows platform to finish following steps. |
| You can change file A to following format by replacing all "\n"(newline) with "|": (word1|word2|word3|...wordn),then: 1. ctrl-o open file B 2. ctrl-h open 'replace' dialog: * set 'replace unit' to 'Line' * set 'search for pattern' to: 3. click 'replace', done. Note: if you need match the whole word only, you can use: |
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| Keywords: |
| replacing whole word whole newline more word nth many word remove all lines or more any word whole words only delete all lines that contain delete lines that match word delete lines more match whole word whole words delete lines with word delete list |