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Old 03-13-2009
uniesh uniesh is offline
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go to editor mode of vi and type :'g/outdated/d'. this wil delete all lines with the worh outdated.

You can also use :'1,10/outdated/d' to delete lines from 1 to 10 with the word outdated.