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, cs@zip.com.au wrote:
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 -- 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