Re: multiline M regexp extension not working in gnu sed 4.2.1?

Ryan B <[email protected]> Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:08:58 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.utils
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Ralf Wildenhues
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> There is a misunderstanding here.  The M modifier does not change the
> line-oriented operation mode of sed.  In order to to multi-line
> matching, you first need to get more than one line into pattern space,

ah! yes, that was the misunderstanding. thanks!