Deleting lines and non-matching lines with VIM

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I'm always forgetting how to do this but here's how to delete matching lines:

:g/.*foo.*/d

And the more difficult thing to do that vim makes easy is deleting non-matching lines. All you do is negate the pattern:

:g!/.*foo.*/d

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