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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Number of lines in vi Post 303034120 by jim mcnamara on Thursday 18th of April 2019 10:37:34 PM
Old 04-18-2019
ex, vi, vim, elvis? Depending on your OS and the fact that vi started out as ex.

W cannot help much until you let us know a little more about your system. And the limit is the size of the file, so something else is going on here if you think it is line limited.

FWIW - ex sets the limit:
For source code, start here with illumos-gate:
GitHub - illumos/illumos-gate: Community developed and maintained version of the OS/Net consolidation
/usr/src/cmd/vi/port/ex_temp.h
/usr/src/cmd/vi/port/ex_temp.c

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GREP(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   GREP(1)

NAME
grep - search a file for lines containing a given pattern SYNOPSIS
grep [-elnsv] pattern [file] ... OPTIONS
-e -e pattern is the same as pattern -c Print a count of lines matched -i Ignore case -l Print file names, no lines -n Print line numbers -s Status only, no printed output -v Select lines that do not match EXAMPLES
grep mouse file # Find lines in file containing mouse grep [0-9] file # Print lines containing a digit DESCRIPTION
Grep searches one or more files (by default, stdin) and selects out all the lines that match the pattern. All the regular expressions accepted by ed and mined are allowed. In addition, + can be used instead of * to mean 1 or more occurrences, ? can be used to mean 0 or 1 occurrences, and | can be used between two regular expressions to mean either one of them. Parentheses can be used for grouping. If a match is found, exit status 0 is returned. If no match is found, exit status 1 is returned. If an error is detected, exit status 2 is returned. SEE ALSO
cgrep(1), fgrep(1), sed(1), awk(9). GREP(1)
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