How do I go to the Xth match in vim?

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I want to find the 2892216th match using a regular expression in vim (technically any linux tool that could give the context to the 2892216th match would suffice)

[This](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15135430/display-only-the-nth-match-of-grep) answer has some nice ways to do it with `awk`. Since your file is so large it may be more efficient than using vim. — GWW, Jun 19 '13 at 16:37

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 19 '13 at 16:36

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You can say 2892216/regex in vim. Make sure that you are at the beginning of file or the count will be wrong. It is nth match from the current position.

answered Jun 19 '13 at 16:36

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Note: that if the cursor starts on a match this will be off by one. – Peter Rincker Jun 19 '13 at 18:44

How do I go to the Xth match in vim?

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