Nighthawk: Created page with "file contents abc def ghi match across 2 lines # cat .abc.txt | sed -n '/abc/N;/def/p' abc def match across 3 lines # cat .abc.txt | sed -n '/abc/N;/def/N;/ghi/p' ..."

2017-05-17T02:06:25Z

Created page with "file contents abc def ghi match across 2 lines # cat .abc.txt | sed -n '/abc/N;/def/p' abc def match across 3 lines # cat .abc.txt | sed -n '/abc/N;/def/N;/ghi/p' ..."

New page

file contents

abc
def
ghi

match across 2 lines
# cat .abc.txt | sed -n '/abc/N;/def/p'
abc
def

match across 3 lines
# cat .abc.txt | sed -n '/abc/N;/def/N;/ghi/p'
abc
def
ghi

the N; tells sed to read the next line past \n and continue the match

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sed match pattern spanning multiple lines - Revision history

Nighthawk: Created page with "file contents abc def ghi match across 2 lines # cat .abc.txt | sed -n '/abc/N;/def/p' abc def match across 3 lines # cat .abc.txt | sed -n '/abc/N;/def/N;/ghi/p' ..."