HP NonStop G-Series - Manual (Page 172)

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When you try to move beyond the first line in the buffer, you receive the ? message. You cannot
move beyond the top of the buffer.
To move the current line forward through the buffer more than one line at a time, enter .n (where
n
is the number of lines you want to move):
.2
line that contains only
Note that .2 is an abbreviation for .+2.
To move the current line backward through the buffer more than one line at a time, enter: .-n
(where n is the number of lines you want to move):
.-2
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Finding Text
If you do not know the number of the line that contains a particular word or another string of
characters, you can find the line with a context search.
To make a context search, do one of the following:
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To search forward, enter:
/string_to_find/
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To search backward, enter:
?string_to_find?
Searching Forward Through the Buffer
To search forward through the buffer, enter the string enclosed in // (slashes):
/only/
line that contains only
The context search (/only/) begins on the first line after the current line, then locates and displays
the next line that contains the string “only”. That line becomes the current line.
If ed does not find the string between the first line of the search and the last line of the buffer, then
it continues the search at line 1 and searches to the current line. If ed searches the entire buffer
without finding the string, it displays the ? error message:
/random/
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Once you have searched for a string, you can search for the same string again by entering just
//
. The following example shows one search for the string “only”, and then a second search for
the same string:
/only/
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//
line that contains only
Searching Backward Through the Buffer
Searching backward through the buffer is much like searching forward, except that you enclose
the string in question marks (??):
?appending?
appending is to type a
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