Lets say I have a text file that says:

Hello my name is agz.
I am asking a question that is important.

If i type: grep -v "is" /path/to/file, I should get no output because both lines have "is".

If i type: grep -o "is" /path/to/file, i should get:

is
is

However I want to get:

Hello my name agz.
I am asking a question that important.

(just missing the is) Is there a way to achieve this using grep and minimal regex?

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grep isn't the right tool for this job. sed is.

$ sed 's|is||g' test.txt
Hello my name agz.
I am asking a question that important.
$ sed 's|is ||g' test.txt
Hello my name agz.
I am asking a question that important.

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