[X-Unix] Any CLI multi-line regex find utilities out there?

[Scott J. Kramer]

--On Wednesday, October 27, 2004 13:55 -0500 Thomas Juntunen 
<juntunen at crc-inc.com> wrote:

> On 10/27/2004 13:47, "Alexandre Gauthier" <supernaut at underwares.org>
> wrote:
>
>> It just occured to me, why can't you do something such as
>> cat file_containing_very_long_text_from_a_email_body | grep --yourstuff
>> 'your regex'?
>
> I'm no expert at grep/egrep, but looking at their man pages, I don't see
> a way to cause patterns to apply beyond line endings. Using perl or
> python, one can specify a "global" flag that causes the dot
> metacharacter to match line-ends which it ordinarily wouldn't do. The
> options listed for grep/egrep don't specify a way to do that (that I can
> see) and my limited experimenting on my Panther machine didn't work.

Try this perl script:

  mg: multi-line grep
  <http://www.srekcah.org/~utashiro/perl/scripts/mg/mg-5.0.1.2>

-sjk