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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re^4: Vi
Message-ID: <2751@piraat.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 13 Jun 89 17:47:22 GMT
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dce@Solbourne.COM (David Elliott) writes:
\...
\Also, doesn't System V have a way to do "runs"?  I seem to recall
\something like following an re with {min,max}.

Right! On SunOS [34].x the command

	/usr/5bin/sed -n /'x\{4,\}'/p

will print each line containing a sequence of 4 or more 'x' characters.
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