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

[Kuestner, Bjoern]

You could maybe pipe it through sed first and remove all the line breaks,
then keep the pipe going to grep and to the usual magic.

Björn



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[mailto:x-unix-bounces at listserver.themacintoshguy.com]On Behalf Of Jakob
Peterhänsel
Sent: 27 October 2004 14:05
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Subject: [X-Unix] Any CLI multi-line regex find utilities out there?


Hi All, 


I though grep could do it, as BBEdit's version can, but got disappointed.
Grep can't find over multi-lines... 


So, is there any CLI solutions out there that can return a match on text
over multi lines??? 


I would like to do something like: 


echo 'my very long text from a email body' | myRegexCmd 'regex expression' 


Any help appreciated! 


____________________________________________ 
Jakob Peterhänsel 
Network Consultant 
Tel: +45 7022 1014 
Fax: +45 7022 1013 
Mob: +45 22 68 49 61 
jp at netpoint.com 
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