After a co-worker asked for some help in matching and deleting from a file all occurances of:
-
delete: uid
Our confusion stemmed from the fact that even with the /m flag to regular expressions, ^ and $ still only can anchor the beginning and end of a regex — to match internal line breaks you need '\n'. E.g.
perl -p -i.orig -000 -e 's/\n-\ndelete: uid$//mg' file