20 Jun
2004
20 Jun
'04
23:23
On Sunday 20 June 2004 23:08, Brad Bendily wrote:
Actually i didn't ask the right question I would like a search that finds every line with the words "file" and "paper" .
so a search for /file and paper looks for that exact string.
i want to find lines with both words on it and not just one?
The search item is a regular expression and it is line oriented, so to find a line that contains both "file" and "paper" (which implies any number of characters in between), do this: /file.*paper -- Regards, Faber Linux New Jersey: Open Source Solutions for New Jersey http://www.linuxnj.com