hi. i hope someone can help out a n00b here. i'm trying to create a command line script to grab 1 data record out of a log file. each entry in the log file starts out with something like this: 

*** 2007-08-17 08:30:51 *** [UID] = 030318520070817083011             
+                          

   followed by information, including line breaks and empty lines, rep
+eat of the same 21-digit number, etc.
*** 2007-08-17 09:25:17 *** [UID] = 030104220070817092407             
+                             
Reason = Web server error
*** XML Request ***
more data, line breaks, spaces, etc.

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so i need everything up until the next entry. i was able to get it to work with the following perl script (the argument to the script is that 21-digit number) 
$badxml = `cat /mmf/log/BadXMLXact*`;
$badxml =~  /@ARGV[0](.|\n)+/;
$& =~ m/\*\*\*.*UID/;

$output =  $`;
for ($output )
                {
s/\s{3,}/\n/g;
                }
print $output;

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and now i need to get it to work as a single line command line script. I tried this, as well as many different variations but obviously without any luck: 
perl -00 -nle 'print if /21-digit-number(.|\n)+(\*\*\*\.*UID)/'

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your help is very much appreciated!

In reply to onle liner help needed by dimchik

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