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From: John Stalker <stalker@maths.tcd.ie>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:34:56 +0100
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Subject: Re: [9fans] missing ed's line numbering in sam -d
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The underlying problem is that sam is simply not line-oriented.
If you're doing things with a file which is naturally thought
of a series of lines then ed is usually better than sam -d.

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