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cravl@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

Replacing line breaks with nulls first is an option. That’s a lot of extra processing for very large blocks of text though.

Using regular grep is possible with the right flags, or you could also use pcre2grep with the -M flag, which should be available on every distro nowadays. See this Stack Overflow article for details.

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activistPnk@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
pcregrep is not automatically installed with Debian but it’s in the official repos. It seems common to get:

pcregrep: Too many errors - abandoned. pcregrep: Error -8, -21 or -27 means that a resource limit was exceeded. pcregrep: Check your regex for nested unlimited loops.

But it will help in many cases. I can see that it works on sufficiently small files. I noticed the built-in grep function for emacs can be modified to use pcregrep w/-M added instead of grep, which I find quite important because emacs makes it very easy to jump around to visit different results. In the end it’s still a hack.
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