On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 07:49:53PM +0000, [email protected] wrote:
> Dear Sirs!
>
> I am having a problem with the above command. I am using an older
> version of OpenBSD, but perhaps the problem is also in newer versions.
>
> Experiment:
>
> (1) Write a file with 5 lines, each containg only the character "a".
>
> (2) apply the following two lines command:
>
> g/a/\
> d
>
> ----
>
> Does it do, what one expects?
The command that you give is, according to the manual, equivalent to
g/a/p\
d
(since "A newline alone in command-list is equivalent to a p command").
So, it prints all lines matching /a/ and then deletes them.
Cheers,
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:: Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri, Bioinformatics Developer, BILS,
:: Uppsala University, Sweden
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