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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Regex to include up to blank line. Post 302920285 by acoding on Wednesday 8th of October 2014 02:05:25 PM
Old 10-08-2014
Regex to include up to blank line.
Hi guys I am trying to figure out how to match a pattern with a regex up to a full blank line. I will show you what I mean with this example:

Code:
example A
movie name: ted
movie name: TMNT
movie name: Jinxed

example B
movie names:
Gravity
Faster
Turbo

song titles:
dont
hello
problem

So above example A seems ok to do, just match "name:". But example B the names are on the next line so I was thinking if I was able to match "names{0,1}:" up to a full blank line so it would go up as far as this:
Code:
movie names:
Gravity
Faster
Turbo

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ regex should end here (blank line)
song titles:

Any ideas guys?
 

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qc2movie

qc2movie(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 					       qc2movie(1)

NAME

     qc2movie -- Quartz Composer export tool

SYNOPSIS

     qc2movie inCompositionPath|repositoryCompositionIdentifier outMoviePath width height duration [--parameterKey1 value1 ...]

DESCRIPTION

     qc2movie is a tool that exports a Quartz Composer composition into a QuickTime movie by adding a track containing this composition. It is the
     command line equivalent of exporting a composition for the Quartz Composer application to a QuickTime movie.

OPTIONS

     inCompositionPath|repositoryCompositionIdentifier
			   specifies which composition you want to export. Ar inCompositionPath is the path to the composition. Ar reposito-
			   ryCompositionIdentifier is the identifier of a composition which lies in the Quartz Composer Repository.

     outMoviePath	   specifies movie file path to which the composition will be exported to

     width		   defines the width of the export movie

     height		   defines the height of the export movie

     duration		   defines the length of the export movie

     [--parameterKey1 value1 ...]
			   passes composition specific parameters through the command line tool to the composition

EXAMPLES

     -To create a 10 second QuickTime movie containing a Quartz Composer track of the Particle System composition:
	      qc2movie "/Developer/Examples/Quartz Composer Compositions/Particle Systems/Particle System.qtz" ~/example.mov 640 480 10

     -To merge two video tracks (30s each) together using an image transition protocol abiding composition (Swing for example) in the Quartz
	      Composer Repository (using its identifier: /swing):
	      qc2movie /swing ~/merged-example.mov 640 480 60 --inputMoviePath1 ~/firstVideo.mov --inputMoviePath2 ~/secondVideo.mov --duration 2

     -To apply an image filter protocol abiding composition to the video track of a movie:
	      qc2movie /colorpencil ~/effect-example.mov 640 480 30 --input ~/Video.mov

SEE ALSO

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