How do I get multi-line string between two braces containing a specific search string?

Question

I\'m looking for a quick and easy one-liner to extract all brace-delimited text-blocks containing a search string from a text file. I\'ve just about googled myself crazy on

Answer 1

User 999999999999999999999999999999 had a nice answer using sed which I really liked, unfortunately their answer appears to have disappeared for some reason.

Here it is for those who might be interested:

sed '/{/{:1; /}/!{N; b1}; /event/p}; d' filepath

Explanation:

/{/ if current line contains{then execute next block { start block :1; label for code to jump to /}/! if the line does not contain}then execute next block { start block N; add next line to pattern space b1 jump to label 1 }; end block /event/p if the pattern space contains the search string, print it (at this point the pattern space contains a full block of lines from{to}) }; end block d delete pattern space