#print Remember that "$" is the last line in the current file. Suppose you want to know how long the file is, i.e. what the number of the last line is. The command $= will tell you that. So you can find the length of the file "data" by saying ed data $= w q Try that; then check by listing the file with "cat" to see how long it is. Then type "ready". #create data This is the file which you should find the number of lines in by typing "$=" in the editor and see that it has exactly nine lines in it when printed. #copyout #pipe #user #unpipe #uncopyout grep 9 .ocopy >/dev/null #log #next 13.2b 5