Add an important detail to paragraph 12: the range is reset only if its

second address is a line number.
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Yaroslav Tykhiy 2007-04-05 17:12:01 +00:00
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@ -124,8 +124,9 @@ All uses of "POSIX" refer to section 4.55, Draft 12 of POSIX 1003.2.
However, the current practice adopted by this implementation,
as well as by those from GNU and SUN, is as follows: The text
from the 'c' command still isn't output because the second address
isn't actually matched; but the range is reset after all. In the
above example, only the first line of the input will be deleted.
isn't actually matched; but the range is reset after all if its
second address is a line number. In the above example, only the
first line of the input will be deleted.
13. Historical implementations allow an output suppressing #n at the
beginning of -e arguments as well as in a script file. POSIX