Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!brl-adm!brl-smoke!smoke!lapoint@BRL.ARPA From: lapoint@BRL.ARPA (Claude Lapointe) Newsgroups: net.unix Subject: Re: global ed join Message-ID: <969@brl-smoke.ARPA> Date: Mon, 19-May-86 08:23:20 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-smok.969 Posted: Mon May 19 08:23:20 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 25-May-86 11:49:07 EDT Sender: news@brl-smoke.ARPA Lines: 9 I'm not sure exactly why it doesn't work, but i have verified that it doesn't. I am concerned with the complexity of your command -- perhaps ed is becoming confused with all the addresses: the form "g/a//a/,/a/+1j" is indeed highly redundant. The form "g/a/.,.+1j" is "more correct" if such an expression may be used. I have verified that "g/stu_f/.,.+1j" works.