Grep multiline regex

Question

consider the following

[Settings]
Flags=17
InHouse=0
PrintMode=4
version=3.0
Background Color=16051165
AutoSaveMin=900000
DefaultTemplate=Untitled.ipt
Save template=1

I'm using grep to loop through thousands of ini files to look for the following:

version=3.0

AND

DefaultTemplate=[alphanumeric]

below does not return any results, what am I missing?

version=3.0[\s\S]*DefaultTemplate=[A-Za-z0-9]

possible duplicate of [How to find patterns across multiple lines using grep?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2686147/how-to-find-patterns-across-multiple-lines-using-grep) — Wrikken, Dec 10 '14 at 22:52
As a regex it appears ok. Is it a grep question? You should use the layz quantifier version though `version=3.0[\s\S]*?DefaultTemplate=[A-Za-z0-9]` — , Dec 10 '14 at 23:06

Gilles Quenot · Accepted Answer · 2014-12-10T23:03:12.657

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Try this:

grep -P '(DefaultTemplate=[\w\.]+|version=[\d\.]+)' *

edited Dec 10 '14 at 23:03

answered Dec 10 '14 at 22:51

Gilles Quenot

Almost, it acts like an OR instead of AND – BelgoCanadian Dec 10 '14 at 23:00
? I get the 2 lines, I don't get you. – Gilles Quenot Dec 10 '14 at 23:03
nvm, yours is close enough, i can work with that, thanks – BelgoCanadian Dec 10 '14 at 23:34

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