Using Vim and ! commands

[Daniel B. Thurman]

Bill Crawford wrote:
|On 18/04/2008, Daniel B. Thurman <dant at cdkkt.com> wrote:
|
|> :!cat <current-buffer OR current-file> | sort | uniq
|>
|> where <current-buffer> OR current-file is used
|>
|> Is there a special keyword that I can use for the
|> <current-buffer> or <current-filename>?
|
|Yes, ":%!sort -u" which will do all of what you want.

Ah! Thanks!

One other issue:  How to I search for patterns NOT in the list

I thought it was something like:

:g/^[^.]/d

For deleting lines NOT containing '.'?
Boy, I am getting a bit rusty!


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