Cafebabe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i tried adding the directive (?s) but then grep finds nothing > > grep -R -E '(?s)select.*from.*;' .
If you want Perl regexps you must use -P. > so my main question then is, how do you make grep regexp span across lines? Use grep -z. -z, --null-data a data line ends in 0 byte, not newline Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."
