grep
verbUK /ɡɹɛp/
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.
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences 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:
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Broadly To search anything (perhaps a paper document by eye).
- Derived terms
- greppable