Smart multiline grep?
David Nicol
davidnicol at gmail.com
Tue Jun 21 11:54:35 CDT 2005
> if I search for
> "proto_tree_add_text" I want back
>
> proto_tree_add_text(subtree, tvb,
> curr_offset, 1,
> "%s : Reserved",
> bigbuf);
>
> and
>
> proto_tree_add_text(tree, tvb, offset, payload_len, "Payload");
>
> equally. I _don't_ want the extra one-size-fits-all fluff returned by
> GNU grep's "-A" flag.
how about this untested one-liner:
perl -ne 'BEGIN{undef $/};print /(proto_tree_add_text\s*\(.+?;\s+\n)/gs'
i think the semicolon will work as a search terminator, ymmv of course
--
David L Nicol
free as in unenforceable
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