grep

Meaning

1. A program which selects lines in a file which match a given pattern.
2. To use a program such as grep to search in a file.
3. To search anything (perhaps a paper document by eye).

Etymology / origin

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

Related words

Descendant words

• grep(Japanese) (bor)

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