File search using regex

[Tim Wegener]

On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:03:36 +0930
Mark Newton <newton at atdot.dotat.org> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> All you wordy python programmers are weenies.  What ever happened to
> efficient code, I ask you?  Sheesh!

Touché :-)

Tim