Re: match across line using grep

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 14:56:45 +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote:

> I'm grepping a bunch of files each have a segment code that executes a
> SQL. My problem is that the query spans across several lines and I can't
> seem to make grep honor (?s) for that. 

(...)

Google says there is a package named "pcregrep" that it may help with 
this :-?

Curiously, "man grep" tell about "-P" swicth but it seems to be disable 
for Debian package build:

***
grep: Support for the -P option is not compiled into this --disable-perl-
regexp binary
***

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón