How to give a pattern for new line in grep?

Question

How to give a pattern for new line in grep? New line at beginning, new line at end. Not the regular expression way. Something like \\n.

Answer 1

try pcregrep instead of regular grep:

pcregrep -M "pattern1.*\n.*pattern2" filename

the -M option allows it to match across multiple lines, so you can search for newlines as \n.