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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Multiple line match using sed Post 302179003 by SiftinDotCom on Wednesday 26th of March 2008 07:27:07 PM
Old 03-26-2008
Question Multiple line match using sed
Please help!

Input pattern, where ... could be any number of lines
struct A {
Blah1
Blah2
Blah3
...
} B;

output pattern
struct AB {
Blah1
Blah2
Blah3
...
};

I need help in extracting everything between { and }
if it would have been on a single line { \(.*\)} should have worked.
 

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qstail

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NAME

       qstail - Utility prints the end of a log file starting at the specified pattern.

SYNOPSIS

       qstail -i <path> -p <pattern>

DESCRIPTION

       qstail  shows  the end of a log file beginning with the line containing the specified pattern. This may be used to show all lines which has
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OPTIONS

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