On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Ralf Wildenhues <ralf.wildenh...@gmx.de> wrote: > > There is a misunderstanding here. The M modifier does not change the > line-oriented operation mode of sed. In order to to multi-line > matching, you first need to get more than one line into pattern space,
ah! yes, that was the misunderstanding. thanks!