Hello Guys,

I have a sample entry for 2300 users like the one below.All I want to delete the line starting with mailROutingAddress,mail,sn etc completely.
Can anyone help me how can I delete the entire line starting with these characters in one shot through Ex-mode?



dn: uid=sharmam,ou=People,dc=im,dc=logica,dc=com
uid: sharmam
cn: Manish Sharma
givenName: Manish
sn: Sharma
mail: sharmam@logica.com
mailRoutingAddress: sharmam@mail.logica.com
mailHost: mail.logica.com
objectClass: inetLocalMailRecipient
objectClass: person
objectClass: organizationalPerson
objectClass: inetOrgPerson


Pls Help

Hi, try

For future, if you are interested. there's a website with tutorials and cheat sheets for Vi..

http://www.viemu.com/a_vi_vim_graphi..._tutorial.html

Alternately

:%s/^mailRoutingAddress:.*//

for all lines (%) substitute (s) match line starts with (^) string (mailRoutingAddress followed by any char (.) any num (zero or more) of times (*) replace with nothing (//)

for anyone new to vi/vim

The Ex-command :%s/^mailRoutingAddress:.*// seems to work but is leaving a line...like this :

dn: uid=apache,ou=People,dc=im,dc=logica,dc=com
uid: apache
cn: Apache
sn: Apache
mail: apache@logica.com
mailRoutingAddress: apache@mail.logica.com
mailHost: mail.logica.com
objectClass: inetLocalMailRecipient
objectClass: person
objectClass: organizationalPerson
objectClass: inetOrgPerson
objectClass: posixAccount
objectClass: top
objectClass: kerberosSecurityObject
objectClass: shadowAccount
userPassword: {crypt}!!
shadowLastChange: 13801
shadowMax: 99999
shadowWarning: 7

loginShell: /sbin/nologin
uidNumber: 48
gidNumber: 48
homeDirectory: /var/www
gecos: Apache

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