On 09:56 26 Jan 2003, Bret Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > | the g/foo/ one I am going to have to read up on before beginning to ask | > | a question about it :) | > | > Thinks of it like a pre-grep for the target lines. | | Yeah I get the g/foo/ part it is the .-2,.+2m0 that looks like gibberish | to me :)
Find every line containing foo. For each of these, move the 5 lines from 2 before to to 2 after it to the top of the file. | BTW does this g/foo s/BLAH/blah/g syntax extend to tools other than vi? | I can;t really think of where it would apply but I thought I would ask. Well, ed. Which I do use from time to time. It really only makes sense in some kind of line oriented editor context. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ He's silly and he's ignorant, but he's got guts, and guts is enough. - Sgt. Hartmann -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
