To search all header files in the current directory in either of your two specified formats, the following will work with either ed or ex with any shell that accepts basic Bourne shell syntax (including any POSIX conforming shell such as bash and ksh):

Code:

#!/bin/ksh
for i in *.h
do	ed -s "$i" <<-EOF
		g/^[ 	]*struct[ 	][ 	]*$1[ 	]*{/ .,/^};/p
		g/^}[ 	]*$1[ 	]*;/ ?typedef[ 	][ 	]*struct[ 	]*{?,.p
	EOF
done

Note that there is a single <tab> character before the EOF on the next to the last line. It will not work correctly if this tab is changed to spaces. Note also that in the here-document there is a single <space> character and a single <tab> character between each pair of square brackets ([ and ]).

With the sample a.h and b.h headers given in post #1 in this thread, if the above script is saved in a file named tester and it is made executable:

Code:

chmod +x tester

then the command:

Code:

./tester Rec3

produces the output:

Code:

 struct Rec3 {
        int     f1;
        float   k1;
        float   k2;
};
typedef struct {
        int     f1;
        float   k1;
        float   k2;
}Rec3;