oh.. my bad.. sorry.. here's what I developed to solve my issue in case others need it
pcregrep -M 'urllib.quote_plus\(simplejson.dumps\(b2\)\).*\n.*path *Parse_cloud_test.py this allows for searching for content across multiple lines (across a \n newline) On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 3:17 AM, <c...@zip.com.au> wrote: > On 24Jun2016 10:57, bruce <badoug...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I've got a test file, with the following lines. Basically, I want a >> grep/regex to traverse the multiple lines to return the lines. >> >> ll_=urllib.quote_plus(simplejson.dumps(b2))+"\n" >> pathchildcount_filep.write(ll_) >> >> I've tried a number of attempts.. I thought something similar to the >> following should work. (but no luck) >> >> pcregrep -Mi ".+urllib.quote_plus(simplejson.dumps(b2))(.+\n).+path" >> foo.py >> >> The test file actually has the "\n" chars as text but the regex/grep can >> ignore it, to focus on getting the two lines.. >> > > Had you thought about sed? Untested: > > sed -n > '/^ll_=urllib.quote_plus(simplejson.dumps/,/^pathchildcount_filep.write/p' > foo.py > > (One line, in case your mail read folds it.) > > I've simplified the regexps, but I'm sure you get the idea. > > Cheers, > Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org >
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