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Remove Lines Containing Text

Delete every line that matches a word, phrase or pattern.

Discards the lines that match and keeps the rest — the equivalent of grep -v. Useful for stripping known noise out of a log before reading it. An empty search term is treated as a no-op rather than a match-everything, so clearing the field restores your text.

Options

Every test has a “does not” form. An empty search term is still a no-op either way.

Match cat but not cats or concatenate.

Blank lines are never removed even if they do not match.

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0lines0words0characters0 B
Output
0lines0words0characters0 B

Options explained

  • Match when the lineEvery test has a “does not” form. An empty search term is still a no-op either way.
  • Whole word onlyMatch cat but not cats or concatenate.
  • Always keep blank linesBlank lines are never removed even if they do not match.