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>
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