[SOLVED] overriding \ in a grep search

[leo7889]

Hi guys

when I do a grep on a string if the result line has an ending \ and have continuation on the next line, I am not getting that result on the next line.

Please help if there is an easy way to override this.

Leo

[tpl]

well, one way is to connect the continuations, perhaps
like this--

tr \\ " " <filename | tr -d "\n" | tr -s " " >new.filename

and then grep

[leo7889]

Found it from a friend.

grep -A1 "heart.*at" prop.txt


Result:
----------
heartbeat \
more beats