Re: match across line using grep

[Andre Majorel <aym-naibed@teaser.fr>]

On 2010-08-03 19:37 +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote:
> On 2010???08???03??? 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'
> $

You're welcome. What version of grep ?

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