Re^4: Vi

[Maarten Litmaath]

dce at 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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