Re: Using sed for multiline matching

laredotornado wrote:
On Dec 13, 12:35 pm, pk <p...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
laredotornado wrote:
Ok, I give up. How do you use sed to do a multiline search given a
regular expression? I don't want to replace anything, just do a
search, much like grep. However, I'm to understand that grep only
searches one line at a time.
http://sed.sourceforge.net/sedfaq4.html#s4.23

after reading that, you'll might think of switching to another tool.

Do you have a suggestion, or even an example, or something else that
can match multi-lines given a regular expression? - Dave

Perl and awk will get the job done, but structural regular expressions is the simplest, cleanest model for this problem:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_%28text_editor%29

If you need a non-interactive solution, just write the sam commands in some file and do:

$ sam -d file.txt < script.sam
.

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