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Anup Buchke
Anup Buchke

Reputation: 5500

VIM : Deleting all characters before particular word for all the lines in a file

I need a vim command for deleting all characters before a particular word for all the lines in a file

Ex: Input:

asdfasdfasdfscccHello

qwerqwerHello

24351243vsfgertHello

Output:

Hello

Hello

Hello

Upvotes: 22

Views: 33816

Answers (1)

pfnuesel
pfnuesel

Reputation: 15300

If you want to delete all characters before "Hello", you can do

:%s/.*Hello/Hello/

Note that .* is greedy, i.e. it will eat all occurrences of "Hello" till it finds the last one. If you have a line:

abcHellodefHelloghi

it will become

Helloghi

If you want a non-greedy solution, try

:%s/.\{-}Hello/Hello

Upvotes: 52

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