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Date:      Wed, 2 Aug 2006 16:59:03 -0700
From:      Bill Campbell <freebsd@celestial.com>
To:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: qauestion using ed.
Message-ID:  <20060802235903.GA84728@alexis.mi.celestial.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060802230830.GA20799@thought.org>
References:  <20060802230830.GA20799@thought.org>

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On Wed, Aug 02, 2006, Gary Kline wrote:
>
>	Guys,
>
>	How, pray tel, do I use ed to delete 23 lines?  I can find "foo"
>	with /foo, but then .,20d or .,+20d or .,+20 d don't work.

.,.+20d

<dot><comma><dot>+20d

If you use the ``ex'' invocation of vi(m), ``20dd'' should do it.

Bill
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