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grep en · PROPN

Pronunciation

  • /ɡɹɛp/ (UK)
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From an idiomatic command sequence in the qed and ed text editors: ‘g/re/p’, meaning: globally search for a regular expression and print.

Meanings

  1. A program which selects lines in a file which match a given pattern.

grep en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ɡɹɛp/ (UK)
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From an idiomatic command sequence in the qed and ed text editors: ‘g/re/p’, meaning: globally search for a regular expression and print.

Meanings

  1. To use a program such as grep to search in a file.
    • You can't grep dead trees.
    • Running netstat and grepping for sshd will give a similar output to this: […] 2019, Kamesh Ganesan, Rithin Skaria, Frederik Vos, Hands-On Linux Administration on Azure […] , 2nd edition, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 293:
  2. (broadly) To search anything (perhaps a paper document by eye).

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
grepping Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
greps Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
grepped Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
grepped Tense=Past lexicographic

Deriveds

greppable

Translations (8)

ru грепнуть (use the program grep) · ru грепать (use the program grep) · nl greppen (use the program grep) · de greppen (use the program grep) · fi grepata (use the program grep) · nl greppen (search anything) · ja grepする (use the program grep) · nl zoeken (search anything)