Written by me@grafxflow
21 Feb, 2021
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This is a quick snippet for anybody wanting to delete all the lines of code of a text file when editing it in the terminal using vim.
Usually in vim when you open a file and you have to delete lines of code, it can be done individually using the following - but what if you have a big file and want to delete all the lines of code this could take forever.
d
But with the below vim command you can actually delete all the lines of code in one go.
:1,$d
Here is a breakdown of what you are actually inputting with the command:
I hope this short snippet has been helpful.
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