Git Grep Multiple line Regex

Question

I wrote a regex to find any file containing space Word [ and here is the regex.

^\s+Session\[

and I want to use this regex in git grep, so I set up a file in my repo that matched the regex and runs it.

here is what I run

git grep '^\s+Word\[' -- '*.cs'

but it returns nothing. I'm really new to git and regex any reference or suggestion to solve this problem?

Try `git grep '^[ \t][ \t]*Word\[' -- '*.cs'` or `git grep '^[[:space:]][[:space:]]*Word\[' -- '*.cs'` — Wiktor Stribiżew, Feb 28 '19 at 08:07

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 19 '20 at 22:42

It looks like you are trying to use Perl regular expressions syntax with git grep. Just add -P (perl-regexp) option and it will work.

UPD: for those who comes here to find about multi line patterns to git grep (just like me): Git Grep Multiple Words on Multiple Lines

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