Re: match across line using grep

[Zhang Weiwu <zhangweiwu@realss.com>]

On 2010年08月03日 17:53, Andre Majorel wrote:

> $ printf 'a\nb' | grep -zo a.*b
> 
> (The above should output something /if/ -z would make egrep
> not consider \n as string terminator. But it has produced no
> output)
    

But grep -z does. This would seem to be an undocumented
limitation of -o.
  

No it doesn't.

$ printf 'a\nb' | grep -z 'a.*b'
$