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Subject: Re: qauestion using ed.
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On Wed, Aug 02, 2006, Gary Kline wrote:
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>	Guys,
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>	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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