Hi Monks,

I am trying to run an expression to match a particular line of text in a file, then capture the entire rest of the file using a perl one-liner:

For example, in the following file, I want to match starting at Header2 (ie the first header after ".X-Intermail-Unknown-MIME-Type=unparsedmessage" to the end of the file.

<lsmothers@example.com>
SMTP
0<001501c4db9b$db8b2680$2d01a8c0@ryand9v889t9uc>
.X-Intermail-Unknown-MIME-Type=unparsedmessage
Header2: <headertwo@example.com
Received: from server.cluster1.example.com ([10.20.201.160])
        line 12

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EVERYTHING I have done around this does not catch it. An example of what I have tried is below. From what I read, I think the below method should work:

$ cat sample.txt | perl -wnl -e '/\.X\-Intermail\-Unknown\-MIME\-Type\
+=unparsedmessag(e.*)/s and print $1;'
e

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The above returns only the e character, and I did that on purpose to make sure the string is matched. I am using the s modifier after the expression, which would categorize "newline" as "any".

Can anyone give me any suggestions? Thanks, Robert

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