pcregrep searches files for character patterns, in the same way as other grep commands do, but it uses the PCRE regular expression library to support patterns that are compatible with the regular expressions of Perl 5.
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Using pcregrep to search for exact matches of multiline string
I am trying to search a directory using pcregrep. I want to search using a long, multi-line string. Basically, I am trying to look through multiple code bases for plagiarism. So I want to be able copy/paste a code block from some code, and then…
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