Question

I’m looking for a quick command in VI(M) where I can delete all text starting from the end of the line to a character. I can do the reverse:

:%s/.*"

But I want the opposite. I tried:

:%s/$.*" 

but that didn’t work (my logic was $ – start from the end of the line, find everything up to ” and delete it.

Here is a sample of the text I’m trying to manipulate (EDIT: but this line occurs multiple times – the solution must work for many lines of a similar construction – single line solutions won’t be sufficient – apologies for not being clear first):

APPPOOL "default app pool" (some long list of stuff, more entries here)

becomes

APPPOOL "default app pool"

Answer 1

why not just simply type $dT"?

if you really want to do it with :s, try

:s/"[^"]*$/"/