delete the space after the x. it's a feature, not a bug, that x without a delimeter means 'break into lines'. thus x /pat/ and x/pat/ mean very different things.
-rob On 2/7/06, Lyndon Nerenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Given an input stream containing: > > <td>Creating XML-RPC client...</td> > <td align="right">0.0001</td> > <td>Creating XML-RPC client...</td> > <td align="right">0.0001</td> > <td>Creating XML-RPC client...</td> > <td align="right">0.0001</td> > <td>Creating XML-RPC client...</td> > <td align="right">0.0001</td> > <td>Creating XML-RPC client...</td> > <td align="right">0.0001</td> > > Should not the sam command: > > , x /^.*Creating.+\n/ d > > delete lines 1,3,5,7 and 9? Or have I lost my mind (again). Instead of > deleting the lines, sam spits out the "?changes not in sequence" error. > > n.b. This is Plan 9 from User Space sam (on FreeBSD 6.almost1). > > --lyndon >
