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grep multiline perl test
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gistfile1.txt
$ cat ~/example.html
not it
<title>
yess 1
2
</title>
$ grep -P '(?s)<title>.*</title>' ~/example.html
$
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rdp commented Dec 3, 2018

$ grep --version
GNU grep 2.6.3

Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

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rdp commented Jan 20, 2022

$ grep -Pz '(?s)<title>.*</title>' ~/example.html
not it

<title> yess 1 2 </title>

Just beware -z adds a trailing NUL char to the output.

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