grep

English

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Wikipedia

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.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɡɹɛp/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛp

Proper noun

grep

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

Verb

grep (third-person singular simple present greps, present participle grepping, simple past and past participle grepped)

1. (computing) To use a program such as grep to search in a file.

   You can't grep dead trees.

   • 2019, Kamesh Ganesan, Rithin Skaria, Frederik Vos, Hands-On Linux Administration on Azure , 2nd edition, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 293:

     Running netstat and grepping for sshd will give a similar output to this: […]

2. (by extension) To search anything (perhaps a paper document by eye).

Derived terms

• greppable

Translations

Further reading

• Eric S[teven] Raymond, editor (2003 December 29), “grep”, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.

Anagrams

• preg

Albanian

Alternative forms

• grap, gërepë, gërjepë

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *grep- (“hook”), from *gremb- (“crooked, uneven”), ultimately from *ger- (“to turn, bend, twist”) (cf. English grapple, Old French grape, grappe, crape (“hook”), Norwegian grep (“grasp”)). Alternatively a contraction of variant gërepë, from archaic and dialectal gërjepë, from Proto-Albanian *ga-repa, from *repa (“to peel, tear off”) (modern rrjep). More at rrjep.

Noun

grep m

1. hook, fishhook

Derived terms

• grremç, gërrefshë, gërraç

Related terms

• gërreç
• zgrip

References

Czech

Noun

grep n

1. (informal) grapefruit

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Japanese

Etymology

Borrowed from English grep.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

grep(グレップ) • (gureppu) 

1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Verb

grep(グレップ)する • (gureppu suru) suru (stem grep(グレップ)し (gureppu shi), past grep(グレップ)した (gureppu shita))

1. to grep

Conjugation

Marshallese

Etymology

From English grape.

Pronunciation

• (phonetic) IPA^(key):
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /ŋɛpʲ/
• Bender phonemes: {gep}

Noun

grep

1. grape; raisin
2. vine
3. vineyard

Related terms

• kūreep

References

• "grep" in The Dictionary at Marshallese.org

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From the verb gripe.

Noun

grep n (definite singular grepet, indefinite plural grep, definite plural grepa or grepene)

1. a grasp, grip.

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• greip

Verb

grep

1. simple past of gripe.

References

• “grep” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From the verb gripe.

Noun

grep n (definite singular grepet, indefinite plural grep, definite plural grepa)

1. a grasp, grip.

References

• “grep” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

Clipping of grepfrut.

Noun

grep n (plural grepuri)

1. grapefruit

Declension

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse greip, from Proto-Germanic *graipō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡreːp/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

grep c

1. garden fork, graip – a tool, resembling a pitchfork but where both handle and prongs are shorter and sturdier, and which is used more for digging than lifting

Declension

Verb

grep

1. past indicative of gripa