On 24Jun2016 10:57, bruce badouglas@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 cs@zip.com.au