On 9/11/18 11:25 AM, 21na...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
I found someone who asked the same question on “Stack Overflow”, still
unanswered, but this person did not ask it on the mailing list.
Here are the details of the question which are nearly similar to my case:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50295772/can-grep-search-for-a-line-feed-and-a-null-character-at-the-same-time
Per 'info grep':
15. How can I match across lines?
Standard grep cannot do this, as it is fundamentally line-based.
Therefore, merely using the ‘[:space:]’ character class does not
match newlines in the way you might expect.
With the GNU ‘grep’ option ‘-z’ (‘--null-data’), each input and
output “line” is null-terminated; *note Other Options::. Thus, you
can match newlines in the input, but typically if there is a match
the entire input is output, so this usage is often combined with
output-suppressing options like ‘-q’, e.g.:
printf 'foo\nbar\n' | grep -z -q 'foo[[:space:]]\+bar'
If this does not suffice, you can transform the input before giving
it to ‘grep’, or turn to ‘awk’, ‘sed’, ‘perl’, or many other
utilities that are designed to operate across lines.
Grep does not have the ability to match hex or octal backslash
sequences, and a literal newline in the pattern is taken as a separation
of patterns. Use of [:space:] to include newline alongside other things
sort of works. But maybe we really do have a bug - when -z is in
effect, I'd expect NUL, rather than newline, to be the byte that
separates separate patterns in the pattern argument (and thus expressing
a literal newline, as in shells that understand $'\n$', to be viable for
writing a single pattern that matches exactly one newline byte at the
end of a NUL-separated record).
That said, your EASIEST approach is to use iconv to recode your file out
of UTF-16 (which is NOT conducive to multi-byte processing), into
something friendlier like UTF-8, and then use grep on the converted file.
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