File search using regex

[Tim Wegener]

Hi Chris,

On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 17:36 +0900, Chris Organ wrote:
> Wondering if someone can assist with regex searches using perl / grep / anything command line. I have lost a severe amount of hair looking for a multi-line search based on exact pattern matching. What I need to do is find this exact header within files within a directory and list them, similar output to using grep -l  ie a list.

It looks like someone beat me to it, but since I've done it now, here is
an alternative. (See attachment, with usage explained in the docstring.)

Tim

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