Question

am new to regular expressions and i cant handle a regex search using grep..
so thought of trying perl

can you give a perl equivalent to the regex

^\s*\*\s*\[ \][^\*]+?(\w*\:[^\*]+\d$)|([^\*]+[.]com[.]au$)

i want to execute it on a file in linux..
a multiline search… can anyone help me out?

even an awk command that can handle my operation would do..

and am already working on this at the following links

Scope of grep with regular expressions

a regular expression to grep specific paragraphs of a file

when i use the expression as it is,
it gives me: syntax error near "^"

Answer 1

i managed to work it out using
PCREGREP utility

pcregrep -M '(^\s*\*\s*\[ \][^\*]+?(\w*\:[^\*]+\d$)|([^\*]+[.]com[.]au$))' file1

that did it 🙂
thanks @Damian @jack