It's interesting to read up on the relationship between ed, sed, ex, and vi. In fact, all 4 of those editors have similar ways of addressing line ranges (1 for

It's interesting to read up on the relationship between ed, sed, ex, and vi. In fact, all 4 of those editors have similar ways of addressing line ranges (1 for the first line, $ for the last line, etc). One interesting feature many people may not know about is that it's possible to address lines using a regular expression. For instance, if you had the following text in a vim buffer: one two three four five and you wanted to delete the lines between "two" and "four" inclusive, you could run the following command in vim: :/two/,/four/d You could also do the same thing in sed sed '/two/,/four/d' filename