DEL
The DEL command is an editing command used to delete the current line from the buffer:
DEL [{b|*|LAST}[ {e|*|LAST}]]where:
- DEL
Is the command, which may not be abbreviated.
- b
Is a line number representing the beginning of a range of lines to delete. If no ending line number is specified, then only this one line will be deleted.
- e
Is a line number representing the end of a range of lines to delete.
- *
The asterisk refers to the current line number. It may be used in place of a line number to mark either the beginning or the end (or both) of a range of lines to be deleted.
- LAST
LAST functions similarly to *, but refers to the last line in the buffer.
DEL, and all the other editing commands, are described in Chapter 2.