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Date: Tue,  7 Feb 2006 19:08:36 -0500
From: Russ Cox <rsc@swtch.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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> 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.

There is a difference between what you wrote and

         , x/^.*Creating.+\n/ d

which is what you meant to write.  If a space follows x
then it means make x loop over lines, so you can also
use the simpler:

         ,x g/Creating/d

Russ