Re: how to search files by pattern?

From: Barry Margolin (barmar_at_alum.mit.edu)
Date: 05/28/04 

Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 17:36:38 -0400

In article <c97uct$iqq$1@mfdebug.isd.dp.ua>,
 "dmitry_kulinich" <dkul@isd.dp.ua> wrote:

> >find / -regex "<insert pattern here>" -type f > my_list_of_files_matching
> Great!...but if a pattern have 10 lines?

Grep works a line at a time, printing each line that matches the
pattern. A pattern that contains multiple lines will never match
anything. 

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