Original question: "Catch an entire function with grep" on Stack Overflow
It is possible to use (GNU) grep to do multiline matching[^fn1], but you're
probably making more work for yourself that way, because sed can do basically
everything grep can plus make replacements.
Using grep -zoP to do multiline matching is fundamentally the same trick as
what's proposed below: turning your file into one long string, separated by
| import sys | |
| import socket | |
| import logging | |
| logging.getLogger().setLevel(logging.DEBUG) | |
| port = None | |
| startport = 8000 | |
| MAXTRIES = 10 |
| #!/usr/bin/env python3 | |
| ## | |
| ## flatcrap - lists orphaned Flatpak data in ~/.var/app | |
| ## | |
| ## Author: Kevin Ernst <ernstki -at- mail.uc.edu> | |
| ## Date: 16 October 2025 | |
| ## License: MPL 2.0 | |
| ## Homepage: https://gist.github.com/ernstki/f3e279e8a050c2df94e9fcfd69d67c2f | |
| ## | |
| ## Originally based on `main.py` from Flatsweep by giantpinkrobots[1], but |
| #!/usr/bin/env python3 | |
| ## | |
| ## Convert LDAP’s “number of 100-nanosecond intervals since January 1, 1601 | |
| ## (UTC)” timestamps to human-readable dates, in the local timezone. See | |
| ## reference [1] for more details. | |
| ## | |
| ## Does not use f-strings, so should work in any old Python 3. | |
| ## | |
| ## Author: Kevin Ernst <ernstki -at- mail.uc.edu> | |
| ## Date: 13 Oct 2025 |
| #!/usr/bin/bash | |
| HASHALG=sha256 | |
| files=() | |
| args=(-$HASHALG) | |
| while (( $# )); do | |
| case $1 in | |
| -*) | |
| for arg in "${args[@]}"; do | |
| if [[ $1 == $arg ]]; then |
| #!/usr/bin/env perl | |
| ## | |
| ## Print where a Perl 5 library was included from | |
| ## | |
| ## Author: Symkat | |
| ## Source: http://www.symkat.com/find-a-perl-modules-path | |
| ## License: Distributed under the same terms as Perl itself | |
| ## <https://perldoc.perl.org/perlartistic> | |
| ## | |
| use warnings; |
| #!/usr/bin/env bash | |
| ## | |
| ## Fetch macOS manual pages from the apple-oss-distributions GitHub org | |
| ## | |
| ## Author: Kevin Ernst <ernstki -at- mail.uc.edu> | |
| ## Date: 8 May 2025 | |
| ## Source: https://gist.github.com/ernstki/ea2649e5ec34dacd9b1d13a8eae10a54 | |
| ## License: WTFPL | |
| ## | |
| ## To do: caching |
| TITLE = Lyrion.org documentation tasks | |
| SHELL = bash | |
| PYTHON = python3 | |
| VIRTUALENV = venv | |
| REQUIREMENTS = mkdocs-requirements.txt | |
| OUTPUTDIR = site | |
| BINDADDR = 127.0.0.1 | |
| PORT = 8888 | |
| help: # prints this help |
| ## | |
| ## Test multiple versions of delta[1] against multiple versions of bat[2] | |
| ## and stop when there's a failure | |
| ## | |
| ## Tested with GNU Make 4.x on Linux; YMMV with macOS or BSD | |
| ## | |
| ## Author: Kevin Ernst <ernstki -at- mail.uc.edu> | |
| ## Source: https://gist.github.com/ernstki/7dbb17c42911708660dc3c4eee3c1002 | |
| ## License: released to the public domain | |
| ## |
| #!/usr/bin/env bash | |
| ## | |
| ## Create symlinks for a list of flatpaks that you want to be able to run | |
| ## from the terminal without typing `flatpak run herp.derp.derp.App` every | |
| ## time. | |
| ## | |
| ## Author: Kevin Ernst <[email protected]> | |
| ## Date: Some time in November, 2024 | |
| ## License: ISC or WTFPL, at your option | |
| ## Homepage: https://gist.github.com/ernstki/aae9e045369b48b517487c7e6694808d |