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Date: Tue,  7 Feb 2006 16:07:01 -0800
From: Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] sam: ?changes not in sequence
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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 <lyndon@orthanc.ca> wrote:
> Given an input stream containing:
>
>          <td>Creating XML-RPC client...</td>
>        <td align=3D"right">0.0001</td>
>              <td>Creating XML-RPC client...</td>
>        <td align=3D"right">0.0001</td>
>              <td>Creating XML-RPC client...</td>
>        <td align=3D"right">0.0001</td>
>              <td>Creating XML-RPC client...</td>
>        <td align=3D"right">0.0001</td>
>              <td>Creating XML-RPC client...</td>
>        <td align=3D"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
>