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Re: grep regex across line boundaries
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: grep regex across line boundaries |
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Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:22:33 +0200 |
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Cafebabe <address@hidden> writes:
> i tried adding the directive (?s) but then grep finds nothing
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> grep -R -E '(?s)select.*from.*;' .
If you want Perl regexps you must use -P.
> so my main question then is, how do you make grep regexp span across lines?
Use grep -z.
-z, --null-data a data line ends in 0 byte, not newline
Andreas.
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