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That’s definetly helpful. Thanks! I’m still somewhat unhappy with all linebreaks being gone in the output, though. Is there a way to reinsert them (e.g. at “…line 23.Reference…”), so all occurences of “Reference” start at a new line? What I get is this: Reference duiarneutdigane uditraenturida enudtiar.Reference uiae uiaetrtdnsu iatdne uiatrdenu diaren uidtae <newline> on line 23.Reference uriadne udtiraeb unledut iaeru uilaedr uiarnde line 234.

bleistift2
– bleistift2

2017-02-19 10:13:06 +00:00
Commented Feb 19, 2017 at 10:13
@bleistift2, with -z the output terminator is also \0 (the null char); several unix commands alsa have a -z to define that input or output is null separated.

JJoao
– JJoao

2017-02-19 10:56:57 +00:00
Commented Feb 19, 2017 at 10:56
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With some more try’n’error I found this really simple solution: grep -zoP '(?s)Reference.*?\.\n?' tst. By matching the \n at the end of the line, I get line breaks in the output: Reference duiarneutdigane uditraenturida enudtiar.<newline> Reference uiae uiaetrtdnsu iatdne uiatrdenu diaren uidtae <newline> on line 23. <newline> Reference uriadne udtiraeb unledut iaeru uilaedr <newline> uiarnde line 234. The ending line break needs to be optional, else the last line wouldn’t match, since there is no newline preceding the end of file. Thank you for your help @JJoao and vatsug

bleistift2
– bleistift2

2017-02-19 11:11:58 +00:00
Commented Feb 19, 2017 at 11:11

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